NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ...

More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA ...

NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct. This remarkable feat ...

“These thrusters were considered dead ... Antenna upgrades are essential for, among other things, NASA's plans to land astronauts on the moon and beyond. Voyager 1 is now in interstellar ...

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Progress 91 engaged its thrusters at 6:10 p.m. EDT (2210 GMT ... The extravehicular activity (EVA) is being performed by NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and is expected to ...

However, NASA announced this week that the spacecraft is experiencing a problem with its thrusters and it is currently coasting. Psyche has an unusual propulsion system which uses ionized xenon ...

Williams and fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore returned to Earth in March after a planned one week in space turned into a 286-day odyssey when they experienced issues with their vehicle's thrusters.

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 ...