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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 engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters ... measure — but if the heaters weren't back online by then, firing the thrusters could cause ...
NASA engineers have resurrected Voyager 1's half-century-old thrusters more than 20 years after they fell silent, reviving a crucial backup just months before a planned communications blackout ...
If they could flip the switch back ... with Voyager 1, DSS-43, will be offline for upgrades from May 2025 to February 2026, with only brief periods online in August and December. NASA teams ...
It was launched almost 50 years ago, space probe «Voyager 1» is not going to retire and continues to explore interstellar ...
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 ...
NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...
"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar ... but if the heaters weren't back online by then, firing the thrusters could ...