Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light ...

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...

The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home. "All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution ...

Voyager 1 is one of humanity's greatest achievements in space travel. This spacecraft was launched by NASA in September 1977 on a one-way trip to the outer reaches of our solar system. Originally, it ...

Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

An artist's concept of the Voyager spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech The Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos for 47 years, collecting precious data beyond the solar system. All that ...

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After almost five decades sailing through space, NASA is trying to squeeze a few more years out of the venerable Voyager 1 deep space probe by swapping a wonky thruster system for a disused secondary ...

As with all aging bodies, clogged tubes form an increasing issue. So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from an aging rubber ...

After nearly half a century of flight, Voyager 1 is closing in on a distance that once belonged purely to thought experiments: one full light-day from Earth. The tiny spacecraft, launched in the late ...

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