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When NASA Lost Contact With Voyager 1, Amateur Astronomers Answered the Call

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Amateur astronomers used the Dwingeloo radio telescope in the Netherlands to receive signals from Voyager 1 .

Voyager 1 suddenly turned off one of its radio transmitters in late October forcing spacecraft to rely on backup.

Astronomers used orbital predictions of Voyager 1’s position in space to correct for Doppler shift in frequency caused by the motion of Earth .

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