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NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft's mode of communication to one using less power.
Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...
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 ...
NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue ...
The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1. While the usual suspects jumped to the usual conclusions — aliens!! — in the absence ...
Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are losing about four watts of power each year due to the decay of their radioisotope power systems, decreasing from an initial output of about 470 watts at launch.
Would a serialized show as early in its run as Voyager was here threaten to radically alter one of the most important relationships on the series so soon? Were the choices made here emboldened by ...
Note: *Starred instruments (below) are still working on one or both of the Voyager spacecraft. The others have malfunctioned or been turned off to save power. The HGA, a 12.1-foot reflector dish ...