For nearly 50 years, NASA's Voyager 1 mission has competed for the title of deep space's little engine that could. Launched in 1977 along with its twin, Voyager 2, the spacecraft is now soaring ...

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.

Let’s check out the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission status webpage for Voyager 1 and 2. It’ll be fun. These two tiny ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That the radio systems of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 worked at all while they were still in the main part of their planetary mission is a technical achievement worth celebrating. The fact that both ...

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 ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for a boost, just don't have the ability to scale to useful interstellar speeds ...

The Soviet Union's October 1957 launch of the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, stunned the U.S., which reckoned it had a commanding lead in "the Space Race." ...