I’m confused and it may be the article. It’s not that we haven’t communicated with Voyager 1 for 37 years, it’s that those particular retro nozzles haven’t been activated for 37 years?
Or am I reading the whole story wrong?
Apparently it’s that those particular thrusters had not been used in 37 yrs. The article confused me, too. I thought they meant that Voyager 1 had been incommunicado all that time.