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

Engineers working on NASA's Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft's thrusters, which keep ...

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.

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

Voyager 1, the most distant human object that ... But the spacecraft's aging nuclear power source is much diminished, and doesn't have much power to play with. So engineers at JPL embarked on ...

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

However, as with so many challenges the Voyager team has faced, this presented a puzzle: The spacecraft's power supply is so low that turning on non-essential heaters would require the mission to ...

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

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 ...

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