NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been in space for nearly five decades, enduring the harsh environment of outer space. In the ...

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

Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA engineers have resurrected Voyager 1's half-century-old thrusters more than 20 years after they fell silent, reviving a ...

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 ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the ...

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