Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the outdated spacecraft, and passing on the knowledge of the Voyagers to the ...

Three of the ten bays on each Voyager’s bus are dedicated to the transmitters, receivers, amplifiers, and modulators of the Radio Frequency Subsystem, or RFS. As with all high-risk space ...

Sadly, we won’t be returning the favor. If aliens ever snag one of our interstellar envoys, like one of the Voyager spacecraft, they’ll see that we sent them some really old school stuff.

Voyager 2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1, 16 days later. Both spacecraft carried TV cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, and photopolarimeters to ...

Along the way, the spacecraft made history time and again, sending back startling scientific data and images for all the world to see. The encapsulation of the Voyager Development Test Model at ...

NASA is set to shut down the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument on Voyager 2 as part of efforts to conserve power and extend the spacecraft's mission life. This instrument measures ions ...

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue ...

The twin Voyager spacecraft, NASA’s oldest ... generates some heat in a particular area of the probe’s central bus that helps keep the propellant lines warm. Other instruments, such as ...