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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
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NASA Are Shutting Down Additional Systems On Both The Voyager 1 And Voyager 2 Spacecraft
NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are some of the most incredible pieces of equipment ever made. They were first ...
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NASA beats the clock to save Voyager 1 from deep space doom
It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space ...
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'Yet another miracle save': NASA engineers complete nail-biting maneuver to resurrect Voyager 1's long-dead thrusters
More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA ...
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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’s Voyager 1 probe is finally making sense again
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 ...
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NASA Revives Voyager 1’s Dead Thrusters After 21 Years — Here’s How
NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from almost 16 billion miles away. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
Voyager 1: Remote heating repair ensures continued operation
NASA engineers have been able to reactivate engines on the Voyager 1 space probe that were actually thought to be broken. The ...
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NASA says Voyager 2 is the second human object ever to touch interstellar space — the void between stars
About 11 billion miles from Earth, a NASA probe has broken another record for humanity. The space agency separately launched its twin Voyager spacecraft in 1977 with a mission to explore the outer ...
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NASA’s Voyager Space Probe’s Reserve Power, And The Intricacies Of RTG-Based Power Systems
Despite this gradual drop in power, NASA recently announced that Voyager 2 has a hitherto seemingly unknown source of reserve power that will postpone the shutdown of more science instruments for ...
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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 ...