Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, initially designed to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program which includes its twin, Voyager 2, Voyager 1’s primary mission was to provide detailed images and data from Jupiter and Saturn, their moons, and rings. After successfully completing this task, the mission was extended to explore the outer reaches of the solar system and beyond.
Voyager 1, after overcoming a computer issue, has resumed sending scientific data from two of its instruments, with plans to recalibrate the remaining two soon….
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun transmitting usable engineering data for the first time since November after a chip failure in one of its onboard…
Engineers have identified a corrupted memory issue in Voyager 1’s onboard computer, hindering data transmission to Earth. Engineers have confirmed that a small portion of…
NASA’s Voyager 1 has been sending non-usable data to Earth since November 2023. Engineers detected unusual signals in March, revealing a full memory readout of…
Voyager 1 faces a communication glitch in its flight data system, complicating data transmission to Earth and challenging engineers due to the spacecraft’s age and…
On September 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft lifted off atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,…
As NASA’s Voyager 1 Surveys Interstellar Space, Its Density Measurements Are Making Waves In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1…
Voyager 1 — one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space — still works…
If you tried to start a car that’s been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a…
A newly published study uses IBEX data and simulations of the interstellar boundary to better describe space in our galactic neighborhood. Immediately after its 2008…
Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft show that the direction of the magnetic field has been slowly turning ever since the spacecraft crossed into interstellar…
New research shows that the heliosphere is dominated by two giant jets of material shooting backwards over the north and south poles of the sun,…
New data show that the shock wave that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft began experiencing in February 2014 is still propagating outward. It is the longest-lasting…
New Data from another “tsunami wave” generated by our sun confirms that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is in interstellar space. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has…
This NASA image of the day shows Jupiter’s Great Red Spot assembled from three black and white negatives from NASA’s Voyager 1. At about 89,000…
Newly published research uses IBEX data to paint a better picture of the magnetic system that surrounds us, offering an explanation for a decades-old mystery…
A new ScienceCast video answers the question, what does interstellar space sound like? As Voyager 1 recedes from the solar system, researchers are listening for…
A newly published study has confirmed that the 36-year-old NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has left our solar system and has entered interstellar space. NASA’s Voyager…