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The spacecraft has been transitioned into a protected state to mitigate potential issues while a critical piece of communication equipment—an antenna—is temporarily offline. This measure ensures that the Voyager remains operational and safe during the upgrade process. Suzanne Dodd, the Voyager project manager and director of the Interplanetary Network Directorate at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, provided reassuring insights into the situation.