Schematic of Voyager telecom system

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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 20:42:33 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

   The aging power-challenged Voyager 1 spacecraft suffered another glitch 2 weeks ago – it stopped calling home on its regular channel. Here is the sequence of events that transpired -

   Oct 16 – Command sent to turn on a heater
   Oct 18 – X-band signal lost; team surmised that the power-overload triggered the fault protection system and Voyager switched to a low-rate low-power X-band mode
   Oct 18 – DSN looked for lower-rate X-band signal and found it
   (contd)

   https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/28/after-pause-nasas-voyager-1-communicating-with-mission-team/
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