NASA has successfully reactivated the thrusters of Voyager 1, an interstellar spacecraft launched in 1977, after they were ...

Researchers reawakened roll thrusters for Voyager 1, restoring a backup system months before an Earth antenna sending commands goes offline.

Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, in the nick of time before a planned communications blackout. A side ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been in space for nearly five decades, enduring the harsh environment of outer space. In the ...

So too with the 47-year old Voyager 1 spacecraft and its hydrazine thrusters. Over the decades silicon dioxide from an aging rubber diaphragm in the fuel tank has been depositing on the inside of ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the ...

NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from almost 16 billion miles away. According to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and now journeying through interstellar space at roughly 35,000 mph, has successfully reactivated a set of backup thrusters previously considered ...

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After 37 years of disuse, a set of thrusters aboard Voyager 1 activated on Wednesday, firing up humanity's farthest-flung spacecraft and hopefully giving it a longer life than it had before.