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NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...
Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...
For a month, NASA had no contact with the probe. Fortunately, despite the problems, communication has been restored. Voyager 1 is operating normally, even though it is over 9 billion miles from Earth.
Communication with Voyager 1, more than 24 billion km away, was lost, but was restored by a sub-communication ... disabled its primary roll thrusters. NASA engineers at the time determined that ...
Researchers reawakened roll thrusters for Voyager 1, restoring a backup system months before an Earth antenna sending ...
NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...
Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived ... spacecraft operating until it’s able to contact home again next year. Voyager 1, launched in September 1977, uses more than one set ...
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable ...
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that ... to ensure constant contact with spacecraft as Earth ...
NASA's Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth, simply refuses to die. In a recent update, the space agency revealed that the little probe that could has once again sputtered back to life ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, the farthest human-made object in space, left the solar system in 2012. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty Images illustration NASA engineers have ...
SEE ALSO: Now you can own NASA's Golden Record on vinyl "With these thrusters that are still functional after 37 years without use, we will be able to extend the life of the Voyager 1 spacecraft ...