For a month, NASA had no contact with the probe. Fortunately, despite the problems, communication has been restored. Voyager 1 is operating normally, even though it is over 9 billion miles from Earth.

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

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

NASA mission controllers raced against time to find a solution before a crucial ground-based radio used for communicating ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that ... to ensure constant contact with spacecraft as Earth ...

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 ...