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Looking Skyward: Contact with Voyager 1 is restored

CAI | By John Basile
Published May 2, 2024 at 2:54 PM EDT
Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space, and continues to send information.
JPL-CALTECH/NASA
Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space, and continues to send information.

After a few months of garbled data from the long-serving Voyager 1 spacecraft, NASA has restored communications. CAI's John Basile talks with Dr. Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the effort to get back in touch with the space probe.

Learn more:

About Voyager 1
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/

The Maria Mitchell Observatory
https://www.mariamitchell.org/loines-observatory
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John Basile
Editor and reporter for CAI and host of Sittin' In CAI's series on musicians and the local music scene.
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