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NASA revived Voyager 1 backup thrusters after two decades, ensuring mission safety as Earth’s key antenna undergoes upgrades. This bold fix extends the spacecraft’s journey through deep space.

Voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, and accomplished its main missions by observing Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn and its rings in 1980. It has since continued to ...

It even discovered a 14th moon on Jupiter, and 10 new moons (and two more rings) on Uranus. Today, Voyager 2 has concluded its studies and travels at around 35,000 mph, moving away from Earth.

Since Voyager 1 blasted off in 1977, it has skirted past the kaleidoscopic clouds of Jupiter and the icy rings of Saturn. The spacecraft is now 124 times farther from the Sun than we are, ...

Voyager 1 reached the beginning of interstellar space in 2012, ... and look for little moons around Jupiter and see if I could spot the rings around Saturn.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Voyager 1 has crossed a new frontier, becoming the first spacecraft ever to leave the solar system, NASA said Thursday.

On March 4, 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint ...

Thirty-five years ago, on February 14, 1990, the Voyager 1 probe took its last series of photographs. The mission has completed its goal of traveling across the Solar System to see Jupiter and ...

How Voyager 1 is still bringing us surprises from the very edge of our solar system. The spacecraft, located more than 24 billion kilometres away, was feared lost to the cosmic ocean after decades ...

Launched in the summer of 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were intended to conduct close-up studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets before continuing ...

Beyond the heliopause is interstellar space, which Voyager 1 entered in 2012 and Voyager 2 reached in 2018. It’s a very different environment from the one inside our heliosphere—quieter but ...