Thankfully, Voyager 1 has three sets of thrusters: two sets of attitude propulsion thrusters and one set of trajectory correction maneuver thrusters. Back then, the space agency simply swapped ...

Voyager 1's remarkable endurance has surpassed all ... The discovery that the openings in the trajectory correction thrusters ...

Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory, and arrived at Jupiter 4 months before its sister craft. Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar space—got in touch on April 20 with usable data on its health and status. That’s a triumph after a glitch in November caused ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before ...

In 2002, Voyager 1’s engineers switched to a backup attitude control thruster system when the primary system clogged. By 2018, they had to shift to the trajectory correction thrusters ...

Ones and zeros. That’s the love language of computers. It’s how NASA’s long-lived Voyager 1 spacecraft communicates with its team back on Earth. Voyager 1 is still talking to NASA ...

On this date, Jan. 26, 1981, NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar ...