More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA ...

Voyager 1 and 2 are NASA’s iconic deep space explorers, launched in 1977 to study the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, ...

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable feat ...

Nasa suspected that the craft might have turned off its X-band transmitter and decided to switch to a second radio transmitter called the S-band to try and make contact with Voyager 1. Scientists ...

Communication with Voyager 1, more than 24 billion km away, was lost, but was restored by a sub-communication ... disabled its primary roll thrusters. NASA engineers at the time determined that ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and now journeying through interstellar space at roughly 35,000 mph, has ...

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

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 ...

Holy cheese cows, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft that keeps on giving, has achieved a remarkable feat by reviving a set of ...

NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from almost 16 billion miles away. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived ... spacecraft operating until it’s able to contact home again next year. Voyager 1, launched in September 1977, uses more than one set ...

NASA's Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth, simply refuses to die. In a recent update, the space agency revealed that the little probe that could has once again sputtered back to life ...