This is one of the last tasks ... sent home by Voyager 1 during the transmitter issue was lost. “However, the science that Voyager is doing now is really about the big picture and long-term ...

The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

Last February 25 the cosmic ray system (CRS) on Voyager 1 was disabled, with the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument (LECP) on Voyager 2 to follow on March 24. With each spacecraft losing about ...

"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...