The Voyager 1 spacecraft is functioning normally again after the aging probe’s dwindling power supply triggered a communications blackout. It’s one of several challenges faced by the ...

And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an effort to conserve power and keep their storied missions going. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ...

Power Challenges and the Long Road Ahead. Although Voyager 1‘s communication systems have been successfully restored, the ...

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, ... For instance, if the spacecraft uses too much power from its supply source, ...

Now 47 years old, Voyager 1 is 15.4 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) from Earth, a distance that grows greater with every passing second.With the power supply from its decaying plutonium ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft experienced a brief pause in communications after putting itself in a protective state to conserve power. Now, it is using its secondary transmitter that’s been ...

Although this provided Voyager 1 and 2 with about 470 W at 30 volts when they launched in 1977, the plutonium’s 87.74-year half-life means they have annually lost roughly 0.79-percent their power.

Voyager 2, launched in 1977, remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune. It is now more than 12 billion miles from Earth. Its twin, Voyager 1, is even farther out, traveling ...

Voyager 1 spent the last 47 years hurtling in a straight line away from Earth, exploring the deepest reaches of space that humanity has ever ventured. However, NASA must carefully manage Voyager 1 ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is functioning normally again after the aging probe’s dwindling power supply triggered a communications blackout. It’s one of several challenges faced by the ...