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One light day: Voyager's long farewell
Season 1 · Episode 302

One light day: Voyager's long farewell

The Voyager space probe is sailing through space, far beyond earth's solar system. It is humanity's most distant messenger....and then it fell silent. This is the story of how NASA got it back.

The Slow Newscast · Alice Sandelson

September 24, 202435m 40s

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Show Notes

The Voyager space probe is sailing through space, far beyond earth's solar system. It is humanity's most distant messenger. And then last year it fell silent. NASA's scientists somehow navigated a 15 billion mile hurdle to bring it back online. This is the story of how and why.


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