Fixing Voyager: How NASA Restored Communications with Voyager 1 from Across the Solar System - YouTube - solar system studies/interstellar studies

with Gregory Smith,communications and education directorate,NASA/JPL;Calla Colfield,media relations specialist,NASA/JPL;Kareem Badaruddin,Voyager mission manager;and Dr.Linda Spilker,Voyager project scientist*Both Voyager spacecraft are now in interstellar space,doing groundbreaking research on the interstellar medium.*The software engineering was needed to correct a hardware failure due to a part failure or cosmic radiation.There are five instruments on each Voyager that are still working:1.the magnetometer,measuring the intensity and direction of the magnetic field;2.the plasma wave detector,that actually measures the radio signals in space;3.the low energy charged particle instrument,measuring low energy cosmic rays,protons,electrons and molecules-it actually can step and measure in eight different directions;4.the plasma spectrometer,which measures the composition,temperature and density of the plasma in the interstellar medium;and 5.the cosmic ray spectrometer that measures the higher energy cosmic rays,the cosmic rays and particles coming from supernova explosions.

It's Alive! Voyager 1 Has Sent a Message From Interstellar Space - YouTube - Secrets of the Universe

Update:since this was posted on 6 May 2024,Voyager 1 has again been relaying science data from two of its instruments.It will take the engineers a little longer to restore the data from the other two working instruments.Both Voyager spacecraft are now in interstellar space,but Voyager 1 got there first,so its data is especially valuable.

Stellardrone - Billions And Billions - from the EP Moments of Stillness - footage from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series - in memory of Carl Sagan

It looks like film of the NASA JPL-Caltech Deep Space Network.