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Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned ...
13 Of The Fastest Human-Made Objects To Ever Enter Space
From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...
Looking Beyond Voyager 1 And 2
NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
Meanwhile, Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument ... the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto. Instruments necessary for ...
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Voyager 2 has been in space for 45 years. NASA just found a way to keep it alive for another 3, despite it being 12 billion miles from Earth.
NASA has hacked a backup source of power to keep Voyager 2 working. The switch should keep the probe, which launched in 1977, alive for another three years. Together, Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled ...
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2 private satellites undock after pioneering life-extension mission
Northrop Grumman’s MEV-1 completes its five-year mission with IS-901, marking a milestone in commercial satellite servicing.
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Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
A side effect of upgrades to an Earth-based antenna that sends commands to Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, the communications ... that extends well beyond the orbit of Pluto.