Flashback 1977: NASA’s Voyager 1 Lifts Off Toward an Interstellar Journey
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,…
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NASA Has Reestablished Full Communications With Voyager 2
NASA’s facility in Australia successfully reoriented Voyager 2, receiving science and telemetry data confirming the spacecraft’s normal operation and expected trajectory. NASA’s Deep Space Network…
Still out There: NASA Detects Carrier Signal From Voyager 2 Amid Communication Blackout
Update: NASA’s facility in Australia successfully reoriented Voyager 2, receiving science and telemetry data confirming the spacecraft’s normal operation and expected trajectory. Following our previous…
12.3 Billion Miles Away: NASA Has Lost Communication With Voyager 2 Spacecraft
Update August 4: NASA’s facility in Australia successfully reoriented Voyager 2, receiving science and telemetry data confirming the spacecraft’s normal operation and expected trajectory. Update…
12 Billion Miles Away: NASA’s Voyager 2 Continues Science Quest With Innovative Power Strategy
The plan will keep Voyager 2’s science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling yet more revelations from interstellar space. Launched…
JPL and the Space Age: The Footsteps of Voyager (NASA Documentary)
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory would be among the first to demonstrate that NASA’s new space shuttle could be used to conduct science experiments about our…
JPL and the Space Age: The Stuff of Dreams (NASA Documentary)
In 1977 the greatest adventure in space exploration began with the launch of the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft – two robotic explorers designed…
Engineers Solve Data Glitch on NASA’s Voyager 1 – But There’s Still a Problem
A critical system aboard the probe was sending garbled data about its status. Engineers have fixed the issue but are still seeking the root cause….
NASA’s Longest-Lived Mission: Voyager Probes Log 45 Years in Space
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA’s longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. Launched in 1977, NASA’s twin…
NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Mystery: Engineers Investigating Telemetry Data
While the Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to return science data and otherwise operate as normal, the mission team is searching for the source of a…
Hear the Eerie Sounds of Interstellar Space Captured by NASA’s Voyager
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…
In the Emptiness of Space 14 Billion Miles Away, Voyager I Detects “Hum” From Plasma Waves
Voyager 1 — one of two sibling NASA spacecraft launched 44 years ago and now the most distant human-made object in space — still works…
Unique Physics in Interstellar Space: Voyager Spacecraft Detect New Type of Solar Electron Burst
Physicists report accelerated electrons linked with cosmic rays. More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries. In a new…
NASA Contacts Voyager 2 – 11.6 Billion Miles From Earth – Using Upgraded Deep Space Station
The only radio antenna that can command the 43-year-old spacecraft has been offline since March as it gets new hardware, but work is on track…
NASA Scientists Find Secret in Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data About the Ice Giant Uranus
The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet’s magnetic field. Eight and…
‘Pale Blue Dot’ Revisited – Iconic View of Earth From 3.7 Billion Miles Away Updated
A recent update to this historic portrait shows Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness of space. For the 30th anniversary of one…
Voyager 2 Fault Protection Triggered – Engineers Working to Restore Normal Operations
Engineers for NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft are working to return the mission to normal operating conditions after one of the spacecraft’s autonomous fault protection routines…
Voyager 2 Illuminates Boundary of Interstellar Space 11 Billion Miles From Earth
One year ago, on November 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 became only the second spacecraft in history to leave the heliosphere — the protective bubble…