The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...
The probe launched on Sept. 5, 1977, and when tech gets that old, it's bound to run into some issues. Voyager 1 gave NASA a scare last month when the space agency lost track of it for a few days ...
Bob Futz: Two unmanned spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral two weeks apart. Their name is Voyager, and they make up the most ambitious effort to date to explore the outer reaches of our solar ...
The Voyager probes are both outside the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends beyond the orbit of Pluto The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has become the ...
The probe has been floating in space since 1977 when it was launched to study the outer solar system. Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the ...
That means NASA will now have to engage in a more involved troubleshooting process. Voyager 1 launched in 1977 and spent decades exploring our solar system before crossing into interstellar space ...