Voyager

Voyager 1 is Forced to Rely on its Low Power Radio

Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement…

1 month ago

NASA Turns Off One of Voyager 2's Science Instruments

The two Voyager spacecraft have been speeding through space since 1977, powered by decaying chunks of plutonium that produce less…

2 months ago

NASA Restores Communications with Voyager 1

The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is finally phoning home again. This is much to the relief of mission engineers, scientists,…

8 months ago

NASA is Fixing its Link to Voyager 1

Voyagers 1 and 2 were, to put it simply, incredible. They were true explorers and unveiled many mysteries of the…

9 months ago

Uranus and Neptune are Actually Pretty Much the Same Color

In the late 1980s, the Voyager 2 spacecraft snapped the "canonical" up-close images of Uranus and Neptune. In those views,…

11 months ago

Voyager 1 Has Another Problem With its Computer System

For more than 46 years, the Voyager 1 probe has been traveling through space. On August 25th, 2012, it became…

12 months ago

Oops. NASA Accidentally Points Voyager 2’s Antenna Away from Earth, Temporarily Losing Contact

It's every space mission's nightmare: losing contact with the spacecraft. In the best case, you recover it right away. Worst…

1 year ago

Edward Stone Has Been the Voyagers’ Project Scientist for 50 Years. He Just Retired

Edward Stone is retiring after 50 years as Project Scientist for the Voyager mission. The twin spacecraft revolutionized our understanding…

2 years ago

Problem Solved! Voyager 1 is no Longer Sending Home Garbled Data!

Earlier this year, the teams attached to the Voyager 1 mission noticed that the venerable spacecraft was sending weird readouts…

2 years ago

Voyager 1 is Sending Home Strange Telemetry Data

Old computer systems have a lot of wacky ways to fail. Computers that are constantly blasted by radiation have even…

3 years ago