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NASA Revives Voyager 1’s Dead Thrusters After 21 Years — Here’s How
NASA has successfully reactivated Voyager 1’s backup thrusters, unused since 2004, in what NASA is calling a "miracle save" ...
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Voyager: A History in Photos
The encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test Model at NASA ... 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory, and arrived at Jupiter 4 months before its sister craft. Voyager 1 took this photo ...
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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...
Miracle In Space: NASA Resurrects Voyager 1's Dead Thrusters After 21 Years
Holy cheese cows, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft that keeps on giving, has achieved a remarkable feat by reviving a set of ...
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NASA Extends Voyager's Journey Through the Cosmos By Powering Off 2 Scientific Instruments
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 ...
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Zombie Voyager 1 Spacecraft Resurrects Its "Dead" Thrusters Over 15 Billion Miles Away
NASA's Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth, simply refuses to die. In a recent update, the space agency revealed that the little probe that could has once again sputtered back to life ...
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Nasa's Voyager 1 reconnects with scientists 15 billion miles away from Earth
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 ...
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Voyager 1 revives backup thrusters before command pause
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the ...
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Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Engineers at NASA ...
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NASA’s Voyager Space Probe’s Reserve Power, And The Intricacies Of RTG-Based Power Systems
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes have been ... Apollo astronaut photo of a SNAP-27 RTG on the Moon. (Credit NASA) Even on Earth it can be tough to find a reliable source of ...
Days Numbered For Voyager Probes As NASA Shuts Off Instruments To Prolong Life
No human-made objects have traveled further into the final frontier than Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. However, both space probes ...
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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
"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 ...