There, engineers were waiting for their own message – one from Voyager 1 to confirm it was safe. Researchers had been concerned about the spacecraft since November 2023, when the messages that ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is fully operational once more ... After the team relocated the code to a new location in the FDS ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less ...

On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented data and insights ...

Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to using a backup radio transmitter that has been ...

No Bugs. To rid Voyager of its terrestrial bugs, contractors will be required to build spacecraft parts in “clean” rooms like those where many delicate instruments are now produced.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA’s pioneering Voyager 1 spacecraft is adventuring beyond our solar system, but all is not well with the elderly machine.