"While the S-band uses less power, Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981," the agency added. On Oct.

The maps depict Earth's position relative to the sun, using pulsars that can remain active for billions of years. U.S. World; ... 1977, followed by Voyager 1 on September 5, 1977.

NASA engineers have revived old thrusters on Voyager 1 to prevent a clog from endangering the mission during a planned communications blackout.

With Voyager 1's backup roll thruster at risk of becoming blocked, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) managed to relight the spacecraft's main thruster, nearly 25 billion kilometers ...

In 1977, Elvis Presley left the building — as some have put it — and the NASA space probes Voyager 1 and 2 took off for what was dubbed by scientists as a grand tour of the solar system. Now ...

NASA's Hubble space telescope has revealed a new map of the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. The Voyager 1 is 13 billion miles from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object ever built.

NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's main transmitter. Using Voyager's weaker backup transmitter, engineers ...