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Voyager 1's thrusters brought back to life after 21 years
Researchers reawakened roll thrusters for Voyager 1, restoring a backup system months before an Earth antenna sending commands goes offline.
Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004.
NASA Revives Voyager Thrusters ‘Considered Dead’ for 20 Years
NASA just brought Voyager 1’s dead thrusters back to life—right before the spacecraft goes quiet for nearly two years.
‘Dead’ thrusters revived to help Voyager 1 through a communications pause
NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned communications blackout.
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
Failure could've triggered a small explosion NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. … It's a nice long-distance engineering win for the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
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Voyager 1 sends back science data from more than 15 billion miles away after NASA fix
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of ... spacecraft's health and operational status. However, data from Voyager 1's four science instruments, which study plasma ...
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NASA’s Voyager 1 probe is finally making sense again
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After five months of gibberish, Voyager 1 is finally talking to NASA again. The ...
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Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft sending gobbledygook data back to Earth
You may be asked to set these preferences again when you visit ... in the footer at any time. Nasa's Voyager 1 space probe has started sending nonsensical data back to Earth after making a ...
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Voyager: A History in Photos
In 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 took off ... made history time and again, sending back startling scientific data and images for all the world to see. The encapsulation of the Voyager Development ...
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Voyager 1 Makes an Incredible Comeback as NASA Brings Dormant Thrusters Back to Life
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and now journeying through interstellar space at roughly 35,000 mph, has successfully reactivated a set of backup thrusters previously considered unusable ...