Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...

After nearly half a century of flight, Voyager 1 is closing in on a distance that once belonged purely to thought experiments: one full light-day from Earth. The tiny spacecraft, launched in the late ...

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of ...

In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science fiction: one full light-day from Earth. When Voyager 1 crosses that ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Voyager 1 was launched into space in 1977 and has been on a one-way journey ever since, pushing the boundaries of how far a machine built by ...

Contrary to its name, Voyager 2 was the first of the vehicles launched into space first in Aug. 20 1977 from Florida. Its twin probe, Voyager 1, launched two weeks later on Sept. 5. At more than 15 ...

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Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone. In November 2026, the probe will be one light-day from Earth. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is ...

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