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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 home.
NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive
Engineers needed to swap out the clogged thrusters on the spacecraft as it continues its journey through interstellar space.
NASA's flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.
Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...
47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades
Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...
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NASA Switches Thrusters On Voyager From 24,630,000,000 Kilometers Away
After a bumpy few years, we have good news about NASA's Voyager 1 mission to share. NASA has successfully switched thrusters ...
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Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Voyager 1 to Maintain Communication with Earth
After nearly 50 years in space, Voyager 1, the farthest human-made object, continues its journey through interstellar space.
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Space Perspective 'marine spaceport' ship returns to Port Canaveral after balloon test flight
Coined by company officials as "the world's first marine spaceport for human spaceflight," MS Voyager ... test mission was propelled by "balloon serial number 1," the company's first balloon ...
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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 ...
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Orion spacecraft can shield Artemis astronauts from deep-space radiation, study shows
The 25-day moon mission in late 2022 validated the Orion spacecraft's shielding to protect astronauts. Data from NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has provided valuable space radiation measurements, which ...
As spacecraft zooms to Venus, it peers back at humble Earth and the moon
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft, barreling through our solar system, recently used Earth's gravity to ...
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Kluge and the Comet: Actuarial Art in Space
Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...