The Space Probe That Explored Four Giant Planets. MVP ARCHIVE HISTORICAL GALLERY > VOYAGER 2 1977 / Voyager 2 \| The Space ...

Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the ...

Nearly 49 years after it launched into space aboard a Titan III rocket, NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe received yet another software update, this time reaching the speeding probe from nearly 13.3 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Voyager 2 launched into the solar system 49 years ago on August 20, 1977. Together with Voyager 1, the two probes are now billions ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, depicted in this artist's concept, has enough power to continue operating three science instruments ...

Nearly 50 years after it left Earth, a small spacecraft launched to tour the outer planets is about to cross a distance marker no human-made object has ever reached. The milestone is not really about ...

Letting go is hard, especially when it concerns an irreplaceable space probe like the two Voyagers. Fortunately JPL engineers have managed to pull off a ‘big bang’ switch on Voyager 2, involving two ...

Learn more about Voyager 1, when it is going to hit one light-day from Earth, and what will happen to it as it reaches deeper into space. Voyager 1 has been streaming its way through the cosmos since ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth, nearing nearly 16 billion miles away. The probe now has two of its original ten science instruments still in operation as NASA ...

Outer Planet Probe - Unmanned Planetary Probe. MVP ARCHIVE HISTORICAL GALLERY > VOYAGER 1 1977 / Voyager 1 \| Outer Planet Probe - Unmanned Planetary P ...

The effort was nicknamed the “Big Bang” by scientists with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who worked to turn off certain powered devices and substitute them with lower-power alternatives while ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, depicted in this artist’s concept, has enough power to continue operating three science instruments in interstellar space longer than anticipated thanks to some clever ...