NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been used since 2004 and were long considered fully defunct.

NASA revived roll thrusters on the 47-year-old Voyager 1 that were thought to be dead for two decades. According to the space agency, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA, located ...

NASA has revived a set of thrusters on the nearly 50-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft after declaring them inoperable over two decades ago. … It's a nice long-distance engineering win for the team ...

Voyager 1 has lived long because, although its technology is aging, it still stands in resilience to show forth NASA’s prescience and inventiveness. The recent communication difficulties only amplify ...