NASA just brought Voyager 1’s dead thrusters back to life—right before the spacecraft goes quiet for nearly two years.
"It's kind of like losing a best friend."
The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments.
The Dwingeloo telescope, designed to observe signals at low frequencies, detected the farthest human spacecraft when it went dark earlier this year.
The spacecraft was forced to rely on a radio transmitter that hadn't been used in 43 years.
The spacecraft has inexplicably turned off one of its radio transmitters, likely because of an unidentified onboard issue.
The interstellar probe has just enough power to continue exploring the cosmos into the 2030s.
Engineers needed to swap out the clogged thrusters on the spacecraft as it continues its journey through interstellar space.
The iconic mission has resumed regular science operations for the first time since November 2023.
JPL engineers pinpointed the cause behind the anomaly and came up with a clever plan to rescue the iconic mission.
Corrupted memory hardware is causing the mission to transmit gibberish, but there may be a way to fix it.
The 46-year-old spacecraft has been transmitting gibberish for months, but the team may be close to identifying the source of the glitch.
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NASA's spacecraft has been suffering from a computer anomaly for months, in what the project manager describes as the "most serious" incident in recent memory.
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The famous spacecraft started transmitting a repeated pattern of ones and zeroes, and engineers are scrambling to find a solution.
