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

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 ...

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 ...

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline for upgrades, NASA engineers revived thrusters aboard the probe that have ...

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 ...

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

But in 2004, two of Voyager 1's internal heaters lost power and stopped functioning, which in turn disabled its primary roll thrusters. NASA engineers at the time determined that the broken ...