NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...

NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from almost 16 billion miles away. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Holy cheese cows, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft that keeps on ... a solution to turn on the dormant roll thrusters and then attempt to fix and restart the heaters. The team successfully executed ...

Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft ... it to the original position might restart the heaters, and in turn, the primary roll ...

Researchers reawakened roll thrusters for Voyager 1, restoring a backup system months before an Earth antenna sending commands goes offline.

NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat: switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe — the farthest human-made object in existence — to a different set of thrusters. The feat ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone ... Voyager's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that manages the mission, said in a ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

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To solve the problem, NASA's team had to reactivate Voyager 1's long-dormant backup roll thrusters and then attempt to restart the heaters that keep them operational. If the star tracker drifted ...