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, ...

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

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space ...

NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned ...

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered thousands of exoplanets with space telescopes like Kepler and TESS. Credit ...

NASA has successfully reactivated the thrusters of Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft launched in 1977, after they were ...

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

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

NASA engineers have fixed a problem aboard Voyager 1, which 21 years ago was thought to be unsolvable. Science & Tech ...

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

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team wanted to bring the long-dormant backup thrusters back online before May 4, 2025, ...

In 1977, two similar spacecraft were launched from Cape Canaveral, in Florida. These were called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 2 was launched first, on 20 August, and Voyager 1 was launched a ...