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 ...
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'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 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, ...
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 ...
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Voyager’s resilience: When old tech outlasts modern expectations
At a time when technology is updated on the fly, the reliance on decades’ old systems for space research has come as both a ...
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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 ...
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NASA’s Voyager 1: What Triggered The Mysterious Communication Shutdown?
NASA successfully reestablished contact with the Voyager 1 spacecraft on October 24, following a brief communication ...
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A radio transmitter not used since 1981 is helping Voyager 1 send messages to Earth
Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft ...
NASA’s Voyager Shuts Down Plasma Sensor After 47 Years of Discovery
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 ...