The problem stemmed from a corrupted chip in one of the spacecraft's computers. After more than five months without contact, NASA has finally reconnected with Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft ...

a former Bell Labs planetary scientist who did the calibrations for the Voyager 1 spacecraft and was a principal investigator on many experiments. He told me that a NASA manager in the 1970s had ...

NASA experts have effectively resurrected ... reducing the risk of losing the mission entirely. The revival of Voyager 1’s primary thrusters is a powerful reminder of what human creativity ...

That was the message relieved NASA officials shared after the agency regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists have ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection with the interstellar spacecraft located more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, using a frequency not ...

On Dec. 12, 2023, NASA shared some worrisome news about Voyager 1, the first probe to walk away from our solar system's gravitational party and enter the isolation of interstellar space.

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located in ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA can’t catch a break when it comes to Voyager 1, apparently. That’s because the ...

Last month, on October 19, Voyager 1 stopped sending signals back to Earth, sparking confusion amongst scientists. NASA managed to reconnect to the probe on October 24 using a radio not used since ...

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were ...

Even if NASA's experts and consultants somehow come up with a miraculous plan that can get Voyager 1 back to normal, its time is running out. Sponsor Message The two Voyager probes are powered by ...