Facing one obstacle after another, the operators of NASA’s Voyager 1 probe continue to find creative solutions to keep the farthest manmade object from Earth transmitting radio communications. Launched in 1977, it is currently 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, and is now well beyond the heliosphere, the bubble of particles emitted by […]

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