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NASA's Voyager 1 completed tricky thruster swap at 38,000 mph to stay in touch with Earth
Traveling at 38,000 miles per hour, Voyager 1 is currently 15 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space. Nearly 50 ...
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Microsoft joins with students to document humanity with a ‘Golden Record’ of glass
Golden Record 2.0, a project created by students ... Copies of the record were placed on NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 probes and launched into space in 1977. The idea was that if space travelers ...
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Kluge and the Comet: Actuarial Art in Space
Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space
NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to overcome extreme cold and dwindling power.
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space
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 ...
47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades
Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...
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47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades
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 Earth from ...