Hacker News with Generative AI: Voyager 1

A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix (npr.org)
Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey.

Space Exploration, Engineering, NASA, Voyager 1

4 points by namanyayg 3 days ago | 1 comments

A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix (text.npr.org)
Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey.

Space Exploration, Engineering, Voyager 1

4 points by BostonFern 3 days ago | 0 comments

NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause (nasa.gov)
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.

Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Engineering

13 points by taubek 6 days ago | 2 comments

NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years (space.com)

Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Spacecraft

5 points by signa11 7 days ago | 0 comments

NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause (nasa.gov)
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.

Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Technology, Engineering

12 points by voxadam 8 days ago | 1 comments

NASA's Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause Science (nasa.gov)
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.

Space Exploration, Engineering, NASA, Voyager 1

22 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 2 comments

We Diagnosed and Fixed the 2023 Voyager 1 Anomaly from 15B Miles Away [video] (youtube.com)

Space Exploration, Technology, Engineering, Voyager 1, Remote Diagnostics

194 points by noselasd 35 days ago | 18 comments

Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope (camras.nl)
We have used the historic Dwingeloo radio telescope to receive signals from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. Only a few telescopes in the world have received these signals, which are very faint due to the distance of Voyager 1: almost 25 billion kilometers, more than four times the distance to Pluto.

Space Exploration, Radio Astronomy, Technology, Voyager 1

321 points by ForHackernews 158 days ago | 121 comments

Saving Voyager 1 [video] (youtube.com)

Space Exploration, Spacecraft, Voyager 1

88 points by thijsr 164 days ago | 13 comments

Voyager 1 breaks its silence with NASA via radio transmitter not used since 1981 (smithsonianmag.com)
NASA's aging Voyager 1 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and has faced a handful of technical issues over the last year, even as it continues to collect scientific data.

Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Technology

508 points by elsewhen 194 days ago | 306 comments

Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 81 (smithsonianmag.com)
NASA's aging Voyager 1 spacecraft entered interstellar space in 2012 and has faced a handful of technical issues over the last year, even as it continues to collect scientific data.

Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Technology

14 points by elsewhen 195 days ago | 0 comments

Voyager 1 phones home with transmitter that hasn't been used since 1981 (space.com)

Voyager 1, Space Exploration, Technology, NASA, Spacecraft

89 points by el_duderino 205 days ago | 2 comments

47-year-old Voyager 1 fired up thrusters it hasn't used in decades (cnn.com)

Space Exploration, Voyager 1, Technology, NASA

166 points by 5F7bGnd6fWJ66xN 249 days ago | 83 comments

NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive (gizmodo.com)
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos for 47 years, collecting precious data beyond the solar system. All that interstellar travel, however, is taking its toll on the probe. Recently, NASA engineers had to resolve a thruster issue affecting Voyager 1, overcoming a series of obstacles posed by the probe’s aging hardware.

Space Exploration, NASA, Engineering, Voyager 1, Science

304 points by Stratoscope 254 days ago | 69 comments

Voyager 1 Team Accomplishes Tricky Thruster Swap (nasa.gov)
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.

Space Exploration, Engineering, NASA, Voyager 1

56 points by ironyman 255 days ago | 2 comments

Day, 47 years ago, Voyager 1 launched into space (nasa.gov)

Space Exploration, NASA, History, Voyager 1

4 points by ColinWright 260 days ago | 0 comments

Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments (space.com)

Space Exploration, Voyager 1, NASA

1044 points by dev_tty01 343 days ago | 226 comments

Voyager 1 Returning Science Data from All Four Instruments (nasa.gov)

Space Exploration, NASA, Voyager 1, Science

84 points by NKosmatos 344 days ago | 7 comments

How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1? (stackexchange.com)