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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...
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Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
The mission team had to take a risk by switching Voyager 1 to its primary roll thrusters and turning them on before attempting to fix and restart the heaters. The heaters could only function if ...
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‘Dead’ thrusters revived to help Voyager 1 through a communications pause
The mission team had to take a risk by switching Voyager 1 to its primary roll thrusters and turning them on before attempting to fix and restart the heaters. The heaters could only function if ...
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Miracle In Space: NASA Resurrects Voyager 1's Dead Thrusters After 21 Years
However, Voyager 1's primary roll thrusters, responsible for the ... on the dormant roll thrusters and then attempt to fix and restart the heaters. The team successfully executed their commands ...