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On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched the Voyager 2 spacecraft on a mission to explore the outer planets. Despite its name, this ...
On this day in 1977, NASA launched Voyager 2, a spacecraft that would go on to make history as one of humanity’s greatest achievements in space exploration. Today, the probe celebrates 48 years in ...
Voyager 1 has been heading outward from Earth for almost half a century, but where is Voyager 1 now and how much longer will ...
Until then, Voyager 2 and NASA won’t be in contact, and Earth won’t be receiving any data from the probe — but the folks on Earth will keep trying to get a connection, Dodd said. In the ...
Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now has just three running after NASA turned off another gadget to ...
South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also ...
In a remarkable feat of engineering, NASA has re-established contact with Voyager 1, the intrepid spacecraft that has ...