“Today was a great day for Voyager 1,” Linda Spilker ... discovered in March that the problem was with a crucial chip inside one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers called the ...

The most pressing dilemma is a rubber diaphragm deteriorating inside the fuel tank. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory noticed in 2002 that the fuel tubes on a set of Voyager 1’s thrusters were ...

Let’s check out the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission status webpage for Voyager 1 and 2. It’ll be fun. These two tiny probes are the farthest human-built objects from Planet Earth ...

After more than forty-six years all of us are likely to feel the wear of time, and Voyager 1 is no different. Following months of harrowing troubleshooting as the far-flung spacecraft stopped ...

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 ...