Let’s check out the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission status webpage for Voyager 1 and 2. It’ll be fun. These two tiny ...

The nuclear batteries onboard the two spacecraft are running out of juice, which means NASA is counting down the days until the death of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 by slowly shutting off systems one ...

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system, entering interstellar space in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The pair were originally intended to study the ...

The space agency had expected a regular reset of the probe in October to fix the error Nasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less ...

On this date, Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona ...

American space agency NASA said yesterday that it was able to make contact with Voyager 2 for the first time since March. The agency revealed that it sent a series of commands to the probe on 29 ...

The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

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In April of 1978, barely a year before its scheduled encounter with Jupiter, the primary S-band receiver on Voyager 2 was shut down by fault-protection algorithms on the spacecraft that failed to ...