Voyager Archives - NASA Science

2 min read Original article ↗

Vintage NASA: See Voyager’s 1990 ‘Solar System Family Portrait’ Debut

Ed Stone pointing to a screen depicting the solar system in a 1990 press conference

In archival footage of a historic NASA news conference, the mission reveals history-making images of six planets in our solar system, including a tiny speck called Earth. This week marks 48 years since the Sept. 5, 1977, launch of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to study Jupiter and Saturn up close. Nearly […]

Read Full Post

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap

A model of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft

Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft’s thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive commands, send engineering data, and provide the unique science data it is gathering.

Read Full Post