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NASA's Quest to Upgrade the Voyager Probes From 16 Billion Miles Away
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Billionaire founder agrees with Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos: We will work in space
Voyager CEO Dylan Taylor joins other space-faring billionaires in predicting a lunar workforce and moon bases by the early 2030s.
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Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
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How Voyager engineers found two more years in a 50-year-old power budget
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NASA’s Voyager 2 Space Probe Just Got New Software From Over 13 Billion Miles Away
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Voyager 1 is down to two working science instruments, and the fix that just bought its twin, Voyager 2, another year of power is now being tested on a probe NASA says no longer behaves quite like its sibling
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Scientists extend instrument life on Voyager 2 probe
NASA engineers successfully execute a daring 'big bang' maneuver to extend the operational life of instruments on the Voyager 2 probe.
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NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
NASA has implemented a strategic technical adjustment to extend the operational lifespan of the Voyager 2 probe nearly 48 years after its initial launch.
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Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware
Scientists are extending the instrument life on the Voyager 2 probe using hardware techniques from the 1970s.
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NASA’s Just Prolonged Voyager 2’s Science Mission With A Big Bang
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‘Big Bang’ fix boosts Voyager 2’s mission in interstellar space
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Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
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Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year
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Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with hundreds of active volcanoes that can shoot sulphur plumes more than 500 kilometres above its surface — a landscape so extreme that early Voyager scientists initially mistook
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A glimpse of home was among the last images Voyager 1’s cameras ever sent. Just 34 minutes after taking the most distant photo of Earth ever, the cameras were powered off to conserve energy
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In 1977, NASA launched two probes designed to last five years. Voyager 1 and 2 are now the only human-made objects in interstellar space, still operating, still transmitting, funded by a team of engineers some of whom have worked on the mission for nearly
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Voyager 1 has no engine running. The 38,000-mile-per-hour speed it has held since its Saturn flyby in 1980 is borrowed momentum from planets it grazed more than four decades ago, and that free ride carries it to one light-day from Earth this November
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NASA has calculated, to the precise second, when Voyager 1 will be exactly one light-day from Earth: 2:16 a.m. on 18 November 2026, at a distance of 16,094,799,096 miles — a number that would have been science fiction when the probe launched in 1977
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The engineers trying to save a fading Voyager had one chance to fire thrusters frozen and unused for 37 years, and when the signal finally returned they learned the impossible had worked
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When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, each of its main computer systems had less than 70 kilobytes of memory — smaller than a typical phone photo — and that 1970s hardware is still carrying out commands from Earth nearly five decades later
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Voyager's signal now reaches Earth as a whisper measured in fractions of a billionth of a watt, fainter than almost anything our antennas were built to hear
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Voyager 1 Has Traveled Through Space at 38,000 Mph Since 1977 And Still Hasn't Reached 1 Light-Day
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Voyager 1 will reach a new milestone in November 2026: it will be so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light will take a full 24 hours to reach it — a distance humanity’s most distant spacecraft crossed in just over 49 years of
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50 Years Later, NASA's Voyager Probe Is Reaching A Big Milestone For Space Travel
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Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission, and in November 2026, nearly half a century later, it will become the first object ever to reach one light-day from Earth — so distant that a signal now takes a full 24 hours to cross the emptiness back h
Voyager 1 set to become the first human-made object a light‑day away, stretching its signal to a full 24‑hour round‑trip
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Voyager 1 has been travelling non-stop since 1977, faster than a speeding bullet every second of every day, and it has not yet reached the distance of a single light-year from Earth
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