The team moved the code responsible for packaging Voyager 1’s engineering data to a new FDS memory location on 2024-04-18.
After receiving engineering data from Voyager 1 on 2024-04-20, the mission team was able to check the health and status of the spacecraft for the first time in five months.
Voyager 1 returned usable engineering data for the first time since 2023-11-01 on 2024-04-20.
Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth as of April 2024.
Voyager 1 is more than 24 billion kilometers from Earth, producing a signal travel time of 22.5 hours between Earth and the spacecraft.
NASA transmitted a command called a "poke" to Voyager 1 on 2024-03-13 and received a memory readout from the spacecraft.
Voyager 1 is a spacecraft launched in 1977.
Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons are the five spacecraft that previously achieved solar system escape velocity.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are 22.7 billion kilometers (152 AU) and 18.9 billion kilometers (126 AU) away from Earth respectively.
NASA–DOE collaboration provided the nuclear fuels that propelled Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 into interstellar space.
Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977 within weeks of each other on missions to fly by Jupiter and Saturn.