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

In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...

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

NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft are some of the most incredible pieces of equipment ever made. They were first ...

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

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system ...