NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981

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This interstellar traveler is a survivor.At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space, Voyager 1 won't last much longer.

In fact, NASA's flight engineers may have thought the 47-year-old mission had finally kicked the bucket when the uncrewed spacecraft recently went quiet.

Based on data from Voyager 1, the spacecraft should have had enough power to flip on the heater without incident.

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