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March 15, 2024: Engineers have sent a 'poke' to the Voyager 1 probe and received a potentially encouraging response as they hope to fix a communication issue with the aging spacecraft that has persisted for five months. While Voyager 1 has continued to relay a steady radio signal to its mission control team on Earth, that signal has not carried any usable data since November, which has pointed to an issue with one of the spacecraft's three onboard computers FILE PHOTO: This psychedelic false-color view of Saturn from Voyager 2 reveals structure in the planet's banded clouds. (Credit Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/ZUMA Press Wire)
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