Futurism

NASA Engineers Were Disturbed by What Happened When They Tested Starliner’s Thrusters

Later this week, Boeing’s plagued Starliner is set to attempt its return journey from the International Space Station. But instead of ferrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to ...
Morning Overview on MSN

US firm delivers 12 kW thrusters for NASA’s lunar Gateway

The delivery of three 12 kilowatt Hall-effect thrusters to NASA’s Lunar Gateway marks a pivotal moment in how the United ...
CNN

47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades

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Gizmodo

NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos for 47 years, collecting precious data beyond the solar system. All that interstellar travel, however, is taking its toll on the probe.
CNN

Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again

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New Atlas

NASA beats the clock to save Voyager 1 from deep space doom

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar system, ...
Space.com

NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies through interstellar space

At 47 years old, the mission keeps flying with a little help from its friends. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The distant and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline for upgrades, NASA engineers revived thrusters aboard the probe that have ...
Live Science

'Yet another miracle save': NASA engineers complete nail-biting maneuver to resurrect Voyager 1's long-dead thrusters

More than 15 billion miles from home, Voyager 1's ailing thrusters were threatening to abort the craft's mission. Until NASA engineers brought them miraculously back to life. When you purchase through ...
Space.com

NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'

"It was yet another miracle save for Voyager." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA engineers have miraculously revived the ...
SpaceNews

Rubicon wins NASA contract to develop large ASCENT thruster

SAN FRANCISCO – Rubicon Space Systems won a NASA contract to develop a 110-newton ASCENT thruster prototype. “It’s bigger than any ASCENT thruster we’ve sold previously,” Daniel Cavender, director of ...