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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
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 ...
NASA revives 'dead' thrusters on Voyager 1 after two decades of inactivity
NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...
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NASA Revives Voyager 1’s Dead Thrusters After 21 Years — Here’s How
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 ...
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NASA coaxes Voyager 1's thrusters back to life
After almost five decades sailing through space, NASA is trying to squeeze a few more years out of the venerable Voyager 1 deep space probe by swapping a wonky thruster system for a disused ...
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NASA Activates Ancient Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Most Distant Human Object in Existence
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 ...
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space
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 ...
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NASA beats the clock to save Voyager 1 from deep space doom
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 ...
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The thrusters on NASA’s Voyager 1 just woke up after a 37-year nap in space
Still, NASA had to at least try, and Voyager 1 was one indeed up for the challenge. “These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or ‘puffs,’ lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the ...
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space
10. You may like 'Yet another miracle save': NASA engineers complete nail-biting maneuver to resurrect Voyager 1's long-dead thrusters NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the ...
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NASA switched on Voyager 1’s thrusters after 37 years—and they still work
According to Suzanne Dodd, NASA’s program ... “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 by ...
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NASA Just Fired Voyager 1's Thrusters For the First Time in 37 Years
On Friday, NASA engineers were able to successfully fire Voyager 1's backup thrusters -- for the first time in 37 years. These small backup thrusters use hydrazine propellant and could be vital to ...