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 ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been flying for almost 50 years, far surpassing even the wildest dreams of its designers. The ...

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

Fixing a Problems Billions of Miles Away in Space In the second half of 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and ...

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

NASA Voyager 1’s thruster issues are resolved with a strategic fix, ensuring continued data transmission from deep space.

Image from Alexander Kluge's short film, “The Galactic Year” (Alexander Kluge Archive, Cornell University) Johann Sebastian ...

One of the Voyager 1 probe's engines has been successfully launched. It was actually out of order due to performance problems ...

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 ...

In response, NASA engineers decided to return to the original attitude thruster system, but they faced a new challenge: the spacecraft now has significantly less power than it did in 2002. Running on ...

As the Canaveral Port Authority's Fireboat 2 provided a water-cannon-salute escort, Space Perspective's balloon-launching ship MS Voyager returned to Port Canaveral ... was propelled by "balloon ...