The issue began in October when the aging probe automatically switched from its primary X-band radio ... the transmitter swap when its computer determined that Voyager I had too little power ...

The system of radio antennas on Earth helps the ... transmitter and shifted the spacecraft to the S-band transmitter that uses less power, NASA said. While Voyager 1’s team wasn’t sure that ...

Smith] from the University of Washington, which purports to construct a low-throughput RF transmitter from little ... of ambient RF signals from local radio stations; we’ve seen those before ...

Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to using a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981. The interstellar explorer experienced a brief ...

The transmitter consumes almost no power, but the receiver consumes substantial ... there is a third component that generates a radio wave. The switching performed by the data transmitter has ...

transmitters—which send information via radio waves to other devices and users—play a pivotal role. Transmitters must be ...

Maybe Kardashev type 2 and 3 civilizations are rare, meaning we wouldn't see transmitters with those powers so, per the constraints, the radio beacons might be out there but operating at a power ...

Eventually, power was restored to KCUR's offices. But in the meantime, we were able to have NPR send programming directly to our transmitter so our radio listeners could hear something in our absence.