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 ...

"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...