🚀 Voyager 1 isn’t done yet — not even close 🧠🔧📡
NASA just pulled off another miracle save:
🛰️ The spacecraft’s primary roll thrusters, offline since 2004, were believed permanently dead
🧯 With backup thrusters at risk of failure, JPL engineers gambled on a high-stakes heater reset
🔥 If wrong, it could’ve caused a small onboard explosion
📡 If right, it would restore control — 15.6 billion miles from Earth
They were right. The thrusters fired. Voyager 1 can still hold its course.
This wasn’t a reboot. It was old-school problem-solving, deep systems knowledge, and the audacity to trust an idea that might just work.
The most distant human object is still flying — because a team believed it could.
#Voyager1 #NASA #Space #Engineering #Resilience #DeepSpace
theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy…
NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix
: Failure could've triggered a small explosionBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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in reply to Brian Greenberg • • •Sable Shade🇦🇺🍉🗝🇵🇸🇺🇦
in reply to Brian Greenberg • • •Ancient, tho😁
I think there are those at the museums and under the earth and beyond it and voyager that may take umbrage at this
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in reply to Brian Greenberg • • •☢️ Waschbär ☢️
in reply to Brian Greenberg • • •And what the team constantly pulls off is stuff worthy of movies, simply legendary.
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