NASA successfully resolves Voyager 1’s thruster issues, enabling the aging spacecraft to continue its journey through interstellar space.
NASA has resolved an issue with the thrusters of the Voyager 1 probe, which is currently about 24 billion kilometers from Earth in interstellar space. After 47 years of operation, some fuel tubes became clogged. Engineers have successfully switched to a different set of thrusters to maintain the spacecraft’s connection with Earth for data transmission. ...