After many months of extremely long-distance repairs, NASA’s Voyager 1 space probe is fully operational once again. “The ...

Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes have been operating non-stop ... the plutonium-238 fuel source significantly easier to model and predict. Now that with the MMRTG units we ...

In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

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 successfully restored contact with Voyager 1 and the spacecraft is operating normally ... “This implies that the virtual model that the team uses to calculate how much ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

In the fall of last year, one of NASA’s most venerable spacecraft started ... barrier and could only model how it shielded Earth from the harshness of the void. Now Voyager 1 could tell us ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not ...

Currently located some 15.4 billion miles from our planet, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been pushing off into deep space since its launch on September 5, 1977. As the lonely spacecraft slowly runs ...

Note: *Starred instruments (below) are still working on one or both of the Voyager spacecraft. The others have malfunctioned or been turned off to save power. The HGA, a 12.1-foot reflector dish ...