NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar exploring spacecraft located 12.8 billion miles from home. NASA engineers have ...
It was the plasma instrument which helped NASA determine that Voyager 2 has left the solar system and entered interstellar ...
The Voyager team at NASA is still doing what it can in an attempt to preserve the Voyager 1 satellite, but at time of writing it seems fairly uncertain whether or not it can succeed. Without ...
NASA has decided to turn off one of Voyager 2’s five remaining instruments—yet another sign that the space probes may be nearing the end of their historic missions. In an October 1 ...
Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...
Nasa has picked up a "heartbeat" signal from its Voyager 2 probe after it lost contact with it billions of miles away from Earth, the space agency said. Last month, the spacecraft - exploring the ...
To put things into perspective, that brings the stellar visitor closer to the Earth than the current distance of the interstellar-bound Voyager 1 probe, which has managed to travel 164 AU away ...
The space agency had expected a regular reset of the probe in October to fix the error Nasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than ...
The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the ...