In April of 1978, barely a year before its scheduled encounter with Jupiter, the primary S-band receiver on Voyager 2 was shut ... provides either 6.5 W or 19 W. The dual X-band exciters, which ...

NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...

Voyager 1 is almost 13 billion miles away. Its signal takes more than 19 hours to reach Earth ... antennas to measure radio waves emitted by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, revealing details ...

NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles and ...

By Oct. 19, communication had altogether stopped. The flight team was not optimistic. However, Voyager 1 was equipped ... was originally intended to study Jupiter and Saturn, their moons, and ...

Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiec ...