CNN —NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with Voyager 1 and the spacecraft is operating normally after its dwindling power supply caused a weekslong blackout.
out of them.”The mission team began turning off any systems that weren’t crucial for flying the probes about five years ago.
Some of those systems included heaters that were designed to keep the science instruments operating at the correct temperature.
Keeping the Voyager probes onlineThe Voyager team has computer models to help them predict how much power the spacecraft’s heaters and instruments are expected to use.
“The bigger issue is how long can we keep the science instruments going with the current power available.”
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CNN, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space
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Pasadena , California