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. The farthest human-made object, Voyager 1 ...

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA ...

NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat: switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe — the farthest human-made object in existence — to a different set of thrusters. The feat ...

Recently, NASA engineers had to resolve a thruster issue affecting Voyager 1, overcoming a series of obstacles posed by the probe’s aging hardware. The wear-and-tear of space travel has caused ...

Artist's impression of Voyager 1, released on September 4, 2012, marking the 35th anniversary of the spacecraft's launch. NASA / AFP Forty ... remotely, a thruster critical to the spacecraft's ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone ... Voyager's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that manages the mission, said in a ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers ... contact with Voyager 1 might be lost forever. The main concern revolved around the spacecraft's roll thrusters, which ensure its antenna remains ...

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 ...

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