Tag: Voyager 1
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Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap
The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged. Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft’s thrusters,…
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10 Things: Going Interstellar
Introduction Humanity’s great leap into interstellar space – the space between the stars – is underway. NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes are both in interstellar space. For the moment, sending humans to the edge of interstellar space, let…
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40 Years On, Remembering Voyager’s Legacy at Saturn
Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Saturn on Aug. 25, 1981. The mission revealed a planet so phenomenal scientists had to go back.