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"This monochrome view is the last image taken by the imaging cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft," NASA explains of the ...

In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004. Fixing the ...

Engineers determined the broken heaters were likely unfixable and opted to rely solely on Voyager 1’s backup roll thrusters to orient the star tracker. “I think at that time, the team was OK with ...

A twin probe, Voyager 2, saw the same thing in 2007. Last year, Voyager 1 witnessed another exit sign.

Voyager 1 was the victim of another mind-boggling issue back in May of 2022, but NASA engineers were able to solve it and get things working again. It remains to be seen if their luck will carry ...

Voyager 1 has been using the X-band transmitter for decades, but the S-band hadn’t been employed since 1981 because its signal is much fainter than the X-band’s.

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft's mode of communication to one using less power.

Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system.