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18, 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photo of Earth and the moon ... passed through the asteroid belt and visited Jupiter and Saturn. Then it took a sharp turn and started heading straight ...
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...
Both Voyagers launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida in 1977 — with Voyager 2 departing a month earlier than 1 — and were designed to last five years to study Jupiter and Saturn.
Today is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, one of humanity ... who died last Friday, packed music, nature sounds, messages, photos, and more on each record—and they included ...
The 46-year-old probe, which flew by Jupiter and Saturn ... Voyager 1, darting 3.7 billion miles away from the sun toward the outer reaches of the solar system, turned around and snapped a photo ...
They revealed new moons around Jupiter and Saturn. In total, the two spacecraft snapped 67,000 images of our solar system, the final of which was the "pale blue dot" photo made famous by Carl ...
We realize that Voyager ... Saturn. NASA also reminded everyone in its news update that, unlike near instantaneous texting between pals on Earth, it takes about 22.5 hours for signals to reach ...
Voyager 1 launched in 1977, zipped past Jupiter and Saturn within just a few years and ... which was designed to last just four years. In particular, degraded performance and low power supplies ...
Wednesday marks the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1's launch to Jupiter and Saturn. It is now flitting ... dramatically slows and heats up. Over the last several months, scientists have seen changes ...