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

On Voyager 1, a fuel tube in the first attitude propulsion branch began to clog in 2002, necessitating a switch to the second branch, NASA officials wrote in the same statement. When the second ...

"All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution than they once did," Suzanne Dodd, Voyager's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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

NASA's Voyager 1 team tackled complex challenges by successfully switching to backup thrusters after the primary ones became clogged with silicon dioxide. The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home.

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 ...

The spacecraft can only continue providing this data when its antenna is pointed at us, something we were reminded of when NASA accidentally pointed Voyager 2 the wrong way in 2023. The thrusters ...

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