After almost five decades sailing through space, NASA is trying to squeeze a few more years out of the venerable Voyager 1 ...

On Voyager 1, a fuel tube in the first attitude propulsion branch began to clog in 2002, necessitating a switch to the second branch, NASA officials wrote in the same statement. When the second ...

NASA's Voyager 1 team tackled complex challenges by successfully switching to backup thrusters after the primary ones became clogged with silicon dioxide. The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay ...

Auxiliary Power NASA engineers have pulled off an incredible feat, switching the agency's ancient Voyager 1 probe to a ...

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The spacecraft can only continue providing this data when its antenna is pointed at us, something we were reminded of when NASA accidentally pointed Voyager 2 the wrong way in 2023. The thrusters ...

Voyager 2 is more than 12 billion miles from home. The probes will celebrate 47 years of operation this year and are NASA’s longest operating spacecraft. Both Voyager probes have flown past ...

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

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 ...

"All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution than they once did," Suzanne Dodd, Voyager's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...