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Electric spacecraft propulsion may soon take a leap, thanks to new supercomputer
Electric propulsion is being increasingly used on space missions and could ultimately replace thrusters using chemical ...
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Forgotten NASA spacecraft wakes up 15 billion miles away after 43 years of silence
When the flight team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California sends instructions to the spacecraft via the ...
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NASA Voyager 1 Making Sense Again After Glitch In Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar ... “The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036, depending on how ...
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The ion propul­sion sys­tem
This innovative propulsion concept was first used in 1998 on NASA’s Deep Space 1 mission to Comet Borrelly. In 2004 the Europeans successfully tested their own ion propulsion system on the Smart 1 ...
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Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft finds its voice again as NASA restores communications
The spacecraft's fault protection system ... transmissions on the S-band antenna could not be heard by NASA's Deep Space Network, meaning that Voyager 1 had effectively fallen silent.
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Los Angeles fires leave NASA's Deep Space Network mission control empty for 1st time in 60 years
This forced the space agency to evacuate the iconic laboratory — leaving the Caltech-managed mission control center for the Deep Space Network, aka NASA's communications hub for missions to Mars ...