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What Voyager 1 & 2 Found Beyond Our Solar System
In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 on a mission to explore the outer planets ... beyond the edge of our solar system. In this video, we explore the groundbreaking discoveries made by ...
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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar System
When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Successfully Revives Antique Transmitter Last Used in 1981 to Prolong its Historic Mission
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is reviving technology abandoned four decades ago to help keep its groundbreaking space ...
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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
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NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981
At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space, Voyager 1 won't last much longer. In fact, NASA's flight engineers may have thought the 47-year-old mission had finally kicked the ...
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Voyager 1 Stuck Using Low-Power Radio That Was Dormant for 43 Years
This time, Voyager 1 dropped offline instead. The Voyager team is getting very good at diagnosing communication ...
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New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When the Voyager 2 ...
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Voyager 1 spacecraft phones home with transmitter that hasn't been used since 1981
The mission's flight team first realized there was an issue with Voyager 1 on Oct. 18, when the spacecraft failed to respond to that command. The team later discovered that the spacecraft had ...
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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
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Engineers use backup transmitter inactive since 1981 to reconnect with Voyager 1
This incident adds to a series of interventions that have been necessary to keep the Voyager 1 mission active, as its time in deep space has taken a toll on its instruments and caused an ...