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 ...

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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 ...

Without them, Voyager 1 would be as good as gone ... To try it, the team would have to turn on the broken thrusters, then try to restart the heaters. If, during that time, the spacecraft drifted too ...

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 ...

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and left the Solar ... The team had to reactivate the dormant thrusters and then try to restart the heaters that keep them operational. The concern was that the ...

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