Voyager 1 spent the last 47 years hurtling in a straight line away from Earth, exploring the deepest reaches of space that ...

NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...

Engineers needed to swap out the clogged thrusters on the spacecraft as it continues its journey through interstellar space.

NASA's Voyager 1 faces age-related thruster issues due to clogging. Engineers switch to backup thrusters to keep Voyager operational.

One of the Voyager 1 probe's engines has been successfully launched. It was actually out of order due to performance problems ...

NASA engineers have successfully solved a tricky issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, which are crucial to keeping the ...

Nasa’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, now 47 years into its historic journey through interstellar space, has faced a new challenge as ...

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

Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...

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 ...

As Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, have aged, the mission team has slowly turned off nonessential systems on both spacecraft to conserve power, including heaters. As a result, components ...