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.

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

After a bumpy few years, we have good news about NASA's Voyager 1 mission to share. NASA has successfully switched thrusters ...

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 ...

The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become ...

When Voyager 1 lifted off to space on September 5, 1977, no one expected that the probe would still be operating today. As a result of its exceptionally long-lived mission, Voyager 1 experiences ...

During a career at JPL that spanned more than half a century, Pete Theisinger worked on missions to six planets, including Mars rovers and Voyager. July 19, 2024 The centers include JPL ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

At 47 years old, the mission keeps flying with a little help from its friends. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most ...