In May 2025, NASA successfully reactivated a set of thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been dormant since 2004. This was a crucial step for scientists as the currently active thrusters, ...

Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been in space for nearly five decades, enduring the harsh environment of outer space. In the ...

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

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NASA engineers have resurrected Voyager 1's half-century-old thrusters more than 20 years after they fell silent, reviving a crucial backup just months before a planned communications blackout ...

Holy cheese cows, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft that keeps on ... a solution to turn on the dormant roll thrusters and then attempt to fix and restart the heaters. The team successfully executed ...

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

To solve the problem, NASA's team had to reactivate Voyager 1's long-dormant backup roll thrusters and then attempt to restart the heaters that keep them operational. If the star tracker drifted ...

Researchers reawakened roll thrusters for Voyager 1, restoring a backup system months before an Earth antenna sending commands goes offline.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and now ... commanded the spacecraft to activate the backup roll thrusters and restart their heaters. Due to the 23-hour signal delay, the team ...