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NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are some of the most incredible pieces of equipment ever made. They were first ...
It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space ...
NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...
"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were ...
More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA ...
A photo of the low-energy charged particle instrument from 1977. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL Voyager 1 and 2 carry the same 10 instruments. Theoretically, this means turning off a particular ...
But in 2004, two of Voyager 1's internal heaters lost power and stopped functioning, which in turn disabled its primary roll thrusters. NASA engineers at the time determined that the broken ...
SEE ALSO: Now you can own NASA's Golden Record on vinyl "With these thrusters that are still functional after 37 years without use, we will be able to extend the life of the Voyager 1 spacecraft ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After five months of gibberish, Voyager 1 is finally talking to NASA again. The 46-year ...
Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft is currently exploring where nothing from Earth has ever flown before. Launched in 1977, it's now on a mission to go as far away from the solar system as possible ...
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable ...