In May 2025, NASA successfully reactivated a set of thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been dormant since 2004. This was a crucial step for scientists as the currently active thrusters, ...

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

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been in space for nearly five decades, enduring the harsh environment of outer space. In the latest development, the team at the US space agency managed to restart a ...

That’s our conclusion anyway, after reading about the latest heroics that revived a set of thrusters on Voyager 1 that had been offline ... results say more about NASA’s cleanliness than ...

In a major achievement, NASA has revived the backup thrusters of its Voyager 1 interstellar probe. The move is particularly significant as the components had not been used since 2004. The revival ...

Over the 48 years since Voyager 1 was launched, these thrusters have begun to show their age and NASA has had to deal with clogging fuel lines and persnickety valves by all manner of work arounds ...

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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NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ability ... the team would have to turn on the broken thrusters, then try to ...