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☆ Jawbone in Child’s Rock Collection Linked to Marine Who Died in 1951
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Amanda Holpuch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A jawbone found in a child’s rock collection in Arizona more than two decades ago belonged to a Marine who died in California in 1951 and was buried in Missouri, the authorities said on Friday. Everett Leland Yager, a U.S. Marine Corps captain, was 30 years old when his plane crashed during a military training exercise on July 31, 1951, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona said in a statement. Captain Yager’s remains were recovered in Riverside County, Calif., and he was buried in Palmyra, Mo. More than 50 years later, a mother, who was not named by the authorities, found what she believed to be human remains in her son’s old rock collection, the sheriff’s office said. Her son had been an avid rock collector as a child and had inherited the collection from his grandfather.

Persons: Everett Leland Yager, Yager’s Organizations: U.S . Marine Corps Locations: Arizona, California, Missouri, U.S, Yavapai County, Riverside County, Calif, Palmyra, Mo

☆ A mom found a jawbone in her son’s rock collection. 22 years later, genealogy researchers ID’d the remains of a US Marine
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Ashley Williams | Ashley R. Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —More than 20 years after a mother found a human jawbone hidden in her son’s rock collection, genetic genealogy experts have unraveled the discovery and identified the partial remains of a US Marine Corps captain. In 2002, his mother found the collection, came across what looked to be human remains and contacted the sheriff’s office, authorities said in a statement. In January 2023, the sheriff’s office and the Yavapai County Medical Examiner referred the case to the Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center. The college partnered with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office to work on the case for free, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “I think it shows how investigative genetic genealogy has stepped in and become the most really incredible investigative tool since the advent of DNA.”

Persons: Everett Leland Yager, John Doe, ”, ” Cairenn Binder, Binder, Bootcamp, Ethan Schwartz, Yager, ” Binder, “, he’d, Yager’s, ” Gurney Organizations: CNN, US Marine Corps, Ramapo College of New, Office, Ramapo College, Genetic, GEDmatch Locations: Riverside County , California, Palmyra , Missouri, Yager, Yavapai County, Northern Arizona, Arizona, California, Yavapai, Ramapo, Salt Lake City , Utah, Salt Lake City

☆ Voyager 1 responds to ‘poke’ sent by NASA engineers
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

A new signal recently received from the spacecraft suggests that the NASA mission team may be making progress in its quest to understand what Voyager 1 is experiencing. Voyager 1’s flight data system collects information from the spacecraft’s science instruments and bundles it with engineering data that reflects the current health status of Voyager 1. But since November, Voyager 1’s flight data system has been stuck in a loop. On March 3, the team noticed that activity from one part of the flight data system stood out from the rest of the garbled data. The decoded signal included a readout of the entire flight data system’s memory, according to an update NASA shared.

Persons: ”, Suzanne Dodd Organizations: CNN — Engineers, NASA, Voyager, Network, CNN

☆ NASA’s ‘shout’ restores communication with Voyager 2
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Using a long-shot “shout” maneuver, the Voyager mission team at NASA has reestablished communication with Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years. Commands sent to Voyager 2 on July 21 accidentally caused the spacecraft’s antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth. One radio antenna is located at Goldstone near Barstow, California, the second near Madrid, and the third near Canberra, Australia. It’s not the first time that the aging twin probes — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977 — have experienced issues. Voyager 1, which is nearly 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, continues to operate as expected and communicate with the Deep Space Network.

Persons: Suzanne Dodd, Dodd, It’s, —, ” Organizations: CNN, Voyager, NASA, “, Space Network, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Locations: Goldstone, Barstow , California, Madrid, Canberra, Australia, Pasadena , California

☆ NASA hears ‘heartbeat’ of Voyager 2 after losing communication
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years. One radio antenna is located at Goldstone near Barstow, California, the second near Madrid, and the third near Canberra, Australia. “We are now generating a new command to attempt to point the spacecraft antenna toward Earth,” Dodd said. Along the way, both Voyager 1 and 2 have encountered unexpected issues and dropouts, including a seven-month period where Voyager 2 and the Deep Space Network couldn’t communicate in 2020. Meanwhile, Voyager 1, which is nearly 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, continues to operate as expected and communicate with the Deep Space Network.

Persons: “, ”, Suzanne Dodd, ” Dodd, ” ‘, ’, It’s Organizations: CNN, NASA, Radio Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Network, Space Locations: Pasadena , California, Goldstone, Barstow , California, Madrid, Canberra, Australia

☆ Uncovering a lost Maya city in the jungle
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Once upon a planetShown here are the remains of a building with a staircase that once stood within the ancient city of Ocomtún on the Yucatán Peninsula. Ivan Šprajc/ZRC SAZUA lost Maya city abandoned more than 1,000 years ago has been found in the jungles of Campeche on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Other worldsThis illustration shows what the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will look like in orbit. These cold, faint worlds are incredibly difficult to detect — but not for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Across the universeThe James Webb Space Telescope captured a high-resolution image of Herbig-Haro 46/47, an actively forming pair of stars.

Persons: Indiana Jones, Ivan Šprajc, Juan Carlos Fernandez, Diaz, Fernandez, Nancy Grace, NASA’s, James Webb, Webb, — Carl Sagan’s, Ludwig van Beethoven, —, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, “ Raiders, SAZU, University of Houston, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Hubble, Telescope, NASA, James Webb Space, DePasquale, ESA, Medical University of Vienna, CNN Space, Science Locations: Ocomtún, Campeche, Mexico’s Yucatán, Vietnam, Southeast Asia

☆ Carl Sagan’s personal master recording of Voyager’s iconic Golden Record goes up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The master recordings of the Voyager Golden Record still have their original boxes. Courtesy Sotheby'sNow, a copy of the master recording for NASA’s Voyager Golden Record — the one kept by the late astronomer Carl Sagan and his wife, producer Ann Druyan — will be for sale at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday. Both Voyager spacecraft carry a copy of the Golden Record. Each record cover was etched with symbols depicting how to locate the sun and instructions on how to play the record. Engineers can be seen securing the cover over the Voyager 1 Golden Record in 1977.

Persons: Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan —, Chuck Berry’s, Johnny B, Goode, Sagan, Frank Drake, Linda Salzman, “, ”, Suzanne Dodd, Dodd, ” Dodd, they’ve Organizations: CNN, NASA’s, Sotheby’s, Columbia Recording, United Nations, Cornell University, NASA, Voyager, JPL, Caltech, Engineers, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Neptune, Hulton, “ Locations: York, Senegalese, Peruvian, Indian, Pasadena , California

☆ It’s Called Eurovision. So Why Is Australia Part of It?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Yan Zhuang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Eurovision is usually held in the country that won the previous year, but Liverpool, England, is hosting the competition on behalf of last year’s champion, Ukraine. Voyager has a lot riding on its performance, given this is the last year Australia is guaranteed to compete in Eurovision. While Australia is not the only non-European country to compete in Eurovision — Israel made its debut in 1973 — it is certainly the most distant. Since Australia started participating in 2015, fans and commentators alike have wondered: Why does a country on the other side of the world participate in what is ostensibly a European song contest?

☆ How the Voyager probes keep going decades after launch
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Voyager 2’s priceless data is captured and returned to Earth through its five science instruments, while Voyager 1 still has four operational instruments after one failed earlier in the mission. Both Voyager probes rely on radioisotope thermoelectric generators. Over time, the Voyager team has commanded the probes to turn off instrument heaters and other nonessential systems. The Voyager proof test model, seen here in 1976, has a platform showcasing several of the science instruments. “Picture it as an ocean of space with waves and turbulence and activity going on, and the Voyager instruments can measure what’s happening,” Spilker said.

☆ FTX sues Voyager Digital to claw back $446 million in 2022 loan payments
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Dietrich Knauth | Industry Insight | Upcoming Sec Climate Disclosure Rules Bring Urgency To Esg Data Strategy Planning | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, Jan 30(Reuters) - Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX sued crypto lender Voyager Digital on Monday, seeking to claw back $445.8 million in loan repayments that FTX made before collapsing into bankruptcy in November 2022. FTX and Voyager both filed for bankruptcy amid a 2022 collapse in cryptocurrency markets, but Voyager’s bankruptcy preceded FTX’s filing by four months. After Voyager filed in July, it demanded repayment of all outstanding loans to FTX and its affiliate hedge fund Alameda Research. FTX said in a court filing that on Alameda’s behalf, it paid Voyager $248.8 million in September and $193.9 million in October. In its Monday court filing, FTX acknowledged the allegations that Alameda raided FTX customer assets to cover its risky borrowing and lending.

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