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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

According to NASA, this problem first cropped up in 2002 when engineers noticed the fuel tubes that route hydrazine fuel to ...

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, launched on their initial missions in 1977 to study the distant solar system. They collectively flew by four largest outer solar system planets by 1989 and ...

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