Each strap-on booster also had two Vernier engines for maneuvering, while the core had four such thrusters. The total thrust of the core stage and boosters was equal to about 4,795.4 kN (1,078,050 ...

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In addition, the mission needed to ensure the availability of the long-dormant thrusters before May 4, when the Earth-bound antenna that sends commands to Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 went ...

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA ...

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were ...

Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, in the nick of time before a planned communications blackout. A side ...

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline for upgrades, NASA engineers revived thrusters aboard the probe that have ...

An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. NASA engineers have put backup thrusters not used since 2004 back into service on its aging Voyager 1 spacecraft — from ...

NASA engineers have revived the thrusters of a spacecraft operating 15 billion miles away from Earth in what has been described as a 'miracle save'. Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and left the ...