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Looking Beyond Voyager 1 And 2
NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...
After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off. NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft were originally designed for a four-year ...
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
What just happened? NASA has remotely disabled one of the science instruments on its Voyager 2 spacecraft in response to the probe's dwindling energy supply. The space agency had hoped to keep all ...
Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles from Earth, making its way through interstellar space. Along its almost 50-year journey, the probe has seen more of the universe than we ever will. Now ...
SEE ALSO: NASA spacecraft has roamed billions of miles — but hasn't reached the 'edge' Tweet may have been deleted Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, have been bopping along for nearly a ...
NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's main transmitter. Using Voyager's weaker backup transmitter, engineers are ...
Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft ...
On October 16th, Voyager 1's fault protection system kicked in, a safety measure designed to preserve the spacecraft's limited power.
Related: NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles Voyager 1's fault protection system can be triggered for a number of reasons, such as if the spacecraft overdraws its power ...
Related: NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles Engineers suspect that, during this period, Voyager 1's fault protection system triggered two more times. This forced the ...