In April, the agency got it to start sending back health and status information, then science data from two of its instruments in May. Now, NASA says Voyager 1, which is over 15 billion miles from ...

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long ... to turn the heaters back on," Koehn says.

NASA's aging Voyager 1 ... band back on prematurely, as Bruce Waggoner, the Voyager mission assurance manager, tells CNN’s Ashley Strickland. But if they can get the transmitter back online ...

Instruments on Voyagers 1 and 2 are being shut off to keep the probes running until the 2030s. Instruments on Voyagers 1 and 2 are being shut off to keep the probes running until the 2030s.

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located ...

the mission’s propulsion lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), says in a statement. “Team morale was very high that day.” Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched in 1977 to study ...

Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced ... some internal heaters they could get the back-up thrusters going again, so Voyager 1 can keep its radio antenna pointed at the Earth ...

For now, NASA says the best chance it has at salvaging ... Late last year, NASA had to activate a radio that Voyager 1 hadn't used in 40 years to reestablish contact with the ancient satellite.