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What is a spacecraft 23 billion kilometers from Earth doing?
The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to explore the universe 45 years after launching from Earth and 22 light hours away from the planet.
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NASA spacecraft finds new world that could contain water and life
In what was thought to be the darkest and deadliest place in the Solar System, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made a shocking discovery.
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How long does it take to reach another star system besides the Solar System?
A group of physicists decided to estimate how long it would take us to reach other star systems in the Milky Way using existing spacecraft.
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NASA's Farthest Flying Spacecraft Is Dying
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, nearly 25 billion kilometers from Earth, continues to experience problems as its power supply on board gradually runs out.
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How was a spacecraft 25 billion kilometers from Earth 'resurrected'?
The Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft has had to resort to using an old radio transmitter to contact NASA after experiencing a signal failure.
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Could a planet so close to Earth be full of swimming fish?
One of NASA's spacecraft may have flown past a planet-moon system teeming with life without knowing it.
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From outside the Solar System, Voyager 1 still sends data back to Earth
Forty-seven years after its launch, Voyager 1 continues to bring back important data from outside the Solar System.
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NASA updates Voyager software from 12 billion miles away
Some 46 years after NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 began their epic journey of space exploration, the probes' aging software continues to be updated remotely.
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NASA shuts down plasma device to save spacecraft 20.5 billion kilometers away
NASA engineers shut down one of Voyager 2's key scientific instruments to extend the spacecraft's life as its power supply dwindles.
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Solution using balloons to pull spacecraft up to 30,000m
Space Perspective's Neptune Excelsior spacecraft prototype is lifted above 99% of Earth's atmosphere during testing off the coast of Florida.
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NASA spacecraft 24 billion km away transmits data after 6 months of problems
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is back to normal operation after a serious problem last November left the spacecraft unable to transmit data for months.
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NASA's fight to save a spacecraft 24 billion kilometers away
For about 5 months, experts tried every way to fix the error and restore communication for Voyager 1, a ship that had been operating for nearly half a century.
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The NASA ship encountered a strange structure surrounding the Solar System
At what seemed to be the end of the solar system, the NASA New Horizons spacecraft discovered signs of a
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NASA found a malfunction on a spacecraft 24 billion km away
Voyager 1 has been transmitting meaningless data since late November last year because a chip on board could have been hit by a high-energy particle.
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NASA received a communication signal from a spacecraft 24 billion kilometers away
After a long period of communication problems with Voyager 1, NASA for the first time received a meaningful signal from a spacecraft flying in interstellar space.