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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 ...
NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977 to study Jupiter and Saturn as well as examine some ... windows of operation in August and December. Without the antenna, the team can’t send ...
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 ...
NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...
"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 ...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that ... another 20 years." But without the ability to control ...
Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft ... failure — leaving the space agency without a way to save the historic mission.
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 its rings in 1980. It has since continued to ...
Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long ... needed to test the thruster without actually igniting ...
NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS.