47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades
Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...
NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive
Engineers needed to swap out the clogged thrusters on the spacecraft as it continues its journey through interstellar space.
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space
NASA's most distant spacecraft had a critical thruster problem far from home. Fixing it required a long-distance call to ...
A clogged thruster could have ended Voyager 1’s interstellar mission. Engineers just saved it
Engineers have mitigated an issue with Voyager 1’s thrusters, enabling the mission to stay in touch with mission controllers ...
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47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades
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Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become ...
NASA's flying to an ocean world. Its spacecraft is giant.
Planetary scientists are confident this moon of Jupiter harbors a deep ocean. A looming question is whether it hosts the ...
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space
At 47 years old, the mission keeps flying with a little help from its friends. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. Voyager 1, the most ...