Still kickin' since the '70s: NASA's Voyager mission keeps exploring
NASA's Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it's making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft ...
NASA's Voyager 2 Finds Clues of Ancient Ocean on Uranus' Moon Miranda
New insights from Voyager 2 suggest Uranus' moon Miranda may have housed a deep ocean, shaping its unique features.
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Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal
Miranda eventually fell out of sync with one of the other Uranian moons, nullifying the mechanism keeping its interior warm. Researchers don't think Miranda has fully frozen over yet though, as it ...
NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981
At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space, Voyager 1 won't last much longer. In fact, NASA's flight ...
NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
NASA is now talking to Voyager 1 with a radio that hasn’t been used since 1981
Thankfully, in June, NASA restored Voyager 1’s science data output to an understandable level ... One thing is for sure, ...
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Successfully Revives Antique Transmitter Last Used in 1981 to Prolong its Historic Mission
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is reviving technology abandoned four decades ago to help keep its groundbreaking space ...
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
Voyager 2, as well as other spacecraft exploring our solar system. Voyager 1 then sends back engineering data to show how it is responding to the commands. It takes about 23 hours for a message to ...