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

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

Now, however, Pluto and that part of the solar system has moved away from the backdrop of the Milky Way into a sparser region of the night sky. With its Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), Subaru has discovered ...

After travelling over 47 years in space, Nasa's Voyager 1 spacecraft thrusters have reportedly been clogged with silicon ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become ...

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

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