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

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...