Despite these limitations, the Voyager mission remains one of NASA's most significant achievements. Since their launch in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have revolutionized our understanding of the ...

Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's ...

It took 37 hours for mission controllers to figure out if the interstellar command had worked as Voyager 2 is billions of miles away from Earth. Staff used the "highest-power transmitter" to send ...

NASA shuts down the Voyager 2 instrument for plasma science to extend the lifespan of the mission It was on September 26, 2023, that NASA closed the Plasma Science Experiment (PLS), one of the main ...

which manages the Voyager missions. While fuller communication is not yet established, Voyager 2 is programmed to reset its orientation multiple times each year to keep its antenna pointing at Earth.

“To me, the Voyager Golden Record is a beautiful example of humanity and striving for world peace,” adds propulsion engineer ...

Mission controllers commanded the spacecraft to switch back to the primary receiver, but that failed again, leaving Voyager 2 without any way to be commanded from the ground. Luckily, the fault ...

Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory, and arrived at Jupiter 4 months before its sister craft. Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter ...

While a nation honors President Jimmy Carter with a state funeral and days of ceremonies in Washington, D.C., and his home ...