NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Holy cheese cows, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft that keeps on ... a dramatic rise in the temperature of the thruster heaters, confirming the successful revival of the backup thrusters.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...