🚀 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
Shalien
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.
Raglan Niall
in reply to Brian Greenberg • • •Arthur van der Harg
in reply to Raglan Niall • • •@Niall Indeed: if Musk had been around in the 1970’s, the Voyagers would be at Alpha Centauri by now!
Anyway, why would you need to send out probes when you can just ask Grok what’s out there?
Ann Effes
in reply to Brian Greenberg • • •Titia Schuurman
in reply to Brian Greenberg • •newscientist.com/article/24819…
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