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NASA Revives Voyager 1’s Dead Thrusters

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.
‘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 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 1’s Dead Thrusters After 21 Years — Here’s How
NASA has successfully reactivated Voyager 1’s backup thrusters, unused since 2004, in what NASA is calling a "miracle save" for the 48 years old probe now in deep space.
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,
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 for nearly two decades.
NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause
The mission team wanted to fix the thrusters, deemed unusable decades ago, before the radio antenna that sends commands to the probe went offline for upgrades.
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NASA's Voyager 1 finally starts making sense again
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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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How Is Voyager Still Talking After All These Years?
The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual ... and is still reporting back useful science data to this day.
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Voyager's Scientific Toolkit
The HGA, a 12.1-foot reflector dish, transmits scientific and engineering data from the ... spacecraft from the science boom is a 43-foot fiberglass boom that houses Voyager's Magnetometer ...
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Voyager 1 back in action: NASA engineers fix 24-billion-km glitch
Finally, on 20 th April, Voyager 1 confirmed receipt and implementation of the code, sending back clear engineering data for the first time since November. While the initial data confirms ...
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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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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 ...