NASA Beats the Odds With Ingenious Voyager 1 Thruster Fix From Billions of Miles Away

Scitech Daily ^ | September 12, 2024 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA

[Red Badger]

V-GER PING!................

[ProtectOurFreedom]

And Boeing couldn’t fix their thrusters 200 miles overhead!

[BobL]

“While those steps have worked to reduce power, they have also led to the spacecraft growing colder, an effect compounded by the loss of other non-essential systems that produced heat.”

Easy solution: Have the spacecraft face the sun. Only problem out there is figuring out which star is the sun, since they all look similar.

Come to think of it, never mind.

[Paal Gulli]

As niggardly as they had to be with weight at launch, it’s astonishing there’s still hydrazine waiting to be burned.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Amazing stuff. Great engineers. I saw a documentary about the engineers for Voyager 1. NASA kept the team together for years. The team aged along with its "offspring". There are so many ingenious solutions they have come up with over the years to keep it working.

[Navy Patriot]

NASA Beats the Odds With Ingenious Voyager 1 Thruster Fix From Billions of Miles Away while the Starliner Astronauts are still stuck on the Space Station.

[dadfly]

Voyager: it has been faithful to its name. American ‘can do’ from a time before the politicians were able to ruin us.

[Roadrunner383]

Voyager 1 is traveling at over 38,000 mile per hour. If it were traveling toward Proxima Centauri, the nearest star outside our solar system, it would take 73,000 years to get there.

[tet68]

I just have to ask, do we have anything in the pipe similar
to Voyager on the way?

Seems we could put our experience to good effect on further probes to be sent out that far...

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

As I have mentioned previously, visit https://behindtheblack.com

For all things space, aerospace, science, etc from a decidedly none woke, real science and truth.

The two Voyagers have the longest running computers in history. AND, those computers have magnetic tape; not exactly 8-track, but one can joke.

Behind the Black also has compilations of things like The Blacklisted. There are new posts every day.

[Ge0ffrey]

Now imagine these stupid movies where people are suspended while the craft travels hundreds of years through space. Absurd fantasy. The reality? Things break down.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Good questions. There have been a few in the works. A new generation will have to pick up the baton. I'm afraid the crop of old school engineers are retiring or dying out.

I heard something like they want to land a probe on one of Saturn's moons. Something like that … I've got to call mission control; my neurons aren't firing … can't remember the details.

[11th_VA]

Amazing piece of equipment

[MinorityRepublican]

[Tell It Right]

I’m very impressed with the the Voyager program.

[montag813]

JPL has always been an amazing place and a point of great engineering pride for the USA.

[Jan_Sobieski]

BS

[wildcard_redneck]

From what I read Boeing did land their spacecraft without failure. But what do I know? Without dead astronauts they can lie about anything they want.

[Paal Gulli]

" I just have to ask, do we have anything in the pipe similar to Voyager on the way?...

There won't be a repeat of the planetary alignment that made it possible for Voyager to slingshot out of the solar system for another 128 years.