By the time it is deactivated on Voyager 2, the motor will have completed more than 8.5 million steps. “The Voyager spacecraft have far surpassed their original mission to study the outer planets,” ...

Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 on a grand tour ... While both Voyager spacecraft started their mission launching from Florida with 10 science instruments, the spacecraft operators at NASA ...

Both spacecraft, launched in 1977, are the only human-made objects in interstellar space, with Voyager 1 over 15 billion miles from Earth and Voyager 2 over 13 billion miles away. This summary was ...

March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...

The Space Launch System (SLS) core stage and rocket boosters have now been stood up and mated in preparation for NASA's ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles ... saving moves were necessary to extend their missions, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd at the ...

Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some. NASA has taken the decision to shut off two more ...

Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 on a grand tour of the solar system ... the protective bubble of solar wind considered the boundary of our solar system. While both Voyager spacecraft started their ...