Is there anybody out there? Voyager 1 fires up thrusters dormant since 1980

Published time: 2 Dec, 2017 12:28 If you had a car sitting in a garage for nearly forty years you’d forgive it for not starting with the first turn of the key. Now imagine it’s 21 billion kilometers from home and you just heard that engine purring from interstellar space. For car read Voyager 1, […]

After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters

Enlarge / The Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980. They are located on the back side of the spacecraft in this orientation. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) At present, the Voyager 1 spacecraft is 21 billion kilometers from Earth, or about 141 times the distance between the Earth and […]

Thanks to Google Earth’s New Voyager Feature, You May Never Have to Go Outside Again

With Google Voyager, You Might Not Have to Go Outside Again Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site […]