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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar SystemWhen it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study SuggestsThe roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps ExploringNASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".
“[Voyager] was designed with nearly everything redundant. Having two spacecraft — right there is a redundancy.” Just last month, the Voyager 1 probe experienced a problem with its thrusters ...
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When the Voyager 2 ...
Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.
NASA / JPL-Caltech In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets ...
"We're definitely going to make the 50th anniversary," says Professor Garry Hunt, one of the scientists responsible for ...
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