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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar System
When 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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What Voyager 1 & 2 Found Beyond Our Solar System
NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2 on a mission to explore the outer planets. Now, over 45 years later, these incredible probes are detecting something mysterious beyond the edge of our solar system.
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Voyager-1 is first man-made object to leave the solar system
They believe it actually left the solar system on 25 August 2012 but could only confirm it late on Thursday night. But why is Voyager-1 such a big deal? Check out Ricky's report above to find out ...
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Voyager 1 shocks NASA by communicating with a radio system not used since 1981
Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...
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The next problems: Error protection on Voyager 1 caused contact to break off
Both visited Jupiter and used it to gain momentum towards Saturn, where their paths diverged: Voyager 1 catapulted out of the plane of the solar system there, Voyager 2 set course for Uranus and ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...
Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
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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 Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Nasa's Voyager 1 reconnects with scientists 15 billion miles away from Earth
Nasa scientists are celebrating as, after a period of silence, the craft recently called home again using a bit of kit that ...
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The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)
One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...
Data from decades old mission solves Uranus mysteries
NASA's Voyager 2 helped shape scientists' understanding of Uranus but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data ...
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Voyager 1 Stuck Using Low-Power Radio That Was Dormant for 43 Years
Still, it's worth it to keep these spacecraft operational—they are the only eyes we have outside the solar system. Voyager 1 ...