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

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space ...

In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

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

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 ...

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were ...

More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA engineers brought them miraculously back to life.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...