Think of the planets of Earth’s solar system as existing in one plane. Voyager 1’s trajectory took it up and out of the plane ...
Thankfully, Voyager 1 has three sets of thrusters: two sets of attitude propulsion thrusters and one set of trajectory correction maneuver thrusters. Back then, the space agency simply swapped ...
Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory, and arrived at Jupiter 4 months before its sister craft. Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—currently cruising in interstellar space—got in touch on April 20 with usable data on its health and status. That’s a triumph after a glitch in November caused ...
Let’s check out the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission status webpage for Voyager 1 and 2. It’ll be fun. These two tiny ...
In 2002, Voyager 1’s engineers switched to a backup attitude control thruster system when the primary system clogged. By 2018, they had to shift to the trajectory correction thrusters ...
Voyager 1 discovers tiny moon at Saturn. The Dodgers keep adding to their payroll. The two-year-old company raised its previous funding round of $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last July from ...
Ones and zeros. That’s the love language of computers. It’s how NASA’s long-lived Voyager 1 spacecraft communicates with its team back on Earth. Voyager 1 is still talking to NASA ...