Voyager 1 Jupiter flyby. Voyager 1 almost didn't get off the ground at its launch, ... (TCM) thrusters hadn't been used since November 1980, during Voyager 1's flyby of Saturn.

Voyager 1 view of Saturn, taken after its close pass of the planet. (NASA/JPL) Layers of haze covering Saturn’s moon Titan are seen in this image taken by Voyager 1 on Nov. 12, 1980 at a range ...

And half of the 50 years, NASA Voyager 1 has spent billions of miles traveling into interstellar space. In October, it went ...

Voyager 1 defied the odds yet again—after over six months of technical issues potentially foreshadowing humanity’s final farewell to the historic spacecraft, NASA reports all four of the probe ...

And Voyager 2—while not yet as far away as Voyager 1—still has operational plans until at least 2026. Don’t forget New Horizons either, whose flyby of Pluto in 2015 fascinated the world .

“So the decision was made that Voyager 1 would go to Jupiter, and Saturn with Titan. ... And so, after all the planetary encounters with a close flyby of Neptune with Voyager 2, ...

Originally planned as a five-year mission to Saturn and Jupiter, NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes have continued deep into the solar system, thanks to their simple, smart engineering.

45 years later, ‘Johnny B. Goode’ is rocking through space, and Voyager mission is still ‘like magic’ Forty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyagers 1 and 2 are far, far away.

Planetary scientist Fran Bagenal first encountered NASA’s Voyager spacecraft during a student job in the late 1970s. Get her take on following these spacecraft for nearly 50 years, as they traveled to ...

The Pioneer 11 spacecraft launched from Earth on April 5, 1973, and completed a flyby of the ringed giant on Sept. 1, 1979. NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2 ...

The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in August 1980. Once it has shut off, the motor will have completed more ...