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NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn as well as examine some ... which was originally intended to last just five years, per Mashable’s Elisha Sauers.
Voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, and accomplished its main missions by observing Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn and ... spacecraft to last another 20 years.' ...
A photo of a mysterious feature on Saturn’s moon that has baffled scientists is now going viral. The planet is some 793 ...
"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 ...
NASA engineers successfully reactivated Voyager 1’s backup roll thrusters, dormant since 2004, to ensure continued spacecraft orientation as primary thrusters face clogging risks.
Along with discovering new moons and rings on Saturn and Jupiter, Voyager 1 has also been slowly going mad and dying — but NASA is not letting it go down without a fight. The spacecraft's mission team ...
It was a race against the rising sun as astrophotographer Josh Dury captured a fleeting cosmic moment before dawn’s light ...
Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system ...
However, the thrusters of Voyager 1 spacecraft, which adjust the spacecraft's orientation, have been 'dead' for the last two decades. "I think at that time, the team was OK with accepting that the ...