NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...

The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. From the highs of the 1970s and 1980s during their ...

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with ... the unforeseen in space exploration.” “We didn’t design them to last 30 years or 40 years, we designed them ...

Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies and degradation of thermocouples. Controllers have managed power by shutting ...