NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has been in space for nearly five decades, enduring the harsh environment of outer space. In the latest development, the team at the US space agency managed to restart a ...

To solve the problem, NASA's team had to reactivate Voyager 1's long-dormant backup roll thrusters and then attempt to restart the heaters ... the team saw the thruster heaters' temperature ...

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar ...

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline for upgrades, NASA engineers ... the backup roll thruster were to become ...

Holy cheese cows, NASA's ... of the thruster heaters, confirming the successful revival of the backup thrusters. This achievement is huge for the continued operation of Voyager 1.

In the end, within 20 minutes of executing the command, the heater temperature began to rise dramatically, and the NASA team learned that Voyager 1's thruster repair mission was successful.

NASA engineers have resurrected Voyager 1's half-century-old thrusters more ... data began to stream back from the craft showing that the thruster heaters were warming up dramatically — the ...