Join us on an interstellar journey with Voyager 1, humanity's aging space envoy facing a critical communication crisis. Can ...

NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for future lunar missions.

Voyager 1 is kept in contact with Earth through NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN), which consists of three antennas at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Barstow, California ...

NASA revived roll thrusters on the ... If Earth happened to lose connection with Voyager 1, it would be nearly impossible to restore communication. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and has traveled ...

In a remarkable turn of events, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft ... of our solar system. Although Voyager 1‘s communication systems have been successfully restored, the spacecraft’s power ...

In May 2025, NASA successfully reactivated a set of thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been ... which they hoped would restore functionality. After a 46-hour round-trip communication ...

NASA has revived a set of thrusters on ... Without roll thrusters, Voyager 1 would lose its ability to stay properly oriented and eventually drift out of contact. To make matters worse, the only ...

Even a slight misalignment of the antennas could sever contact ... of Voyager 1 – the glitch threatening its mission, and the increasingly risky measures NASA is taking to try and restore ...

Earlier this year, NASA ... Voyager 1, along with its twin Voyager 2, depends on a powerful ground-based radio antenna for communication. This antenna needed to be taken offline for upgrades, but ...

NASA mission controllers raced against time ... but there was a real risk that when it was turned back on, contact with Voyager 1 might be lost forever. The main concern revolved around the ...