Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...

The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive plutonium.

Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days, but Voyager 1 quickly overtook it on a faster trajectory, and arrived at Jupiter 4 months before its sister craft. Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter ...

Two of the solar system’s most promising environments for finding alien life—Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus—were unveiled by the Voyager mission. Their cores palpitated ...

Voyager is a NASA mission made up of two different spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, which launched to space ... grand tour of our solar system, studying Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—one ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 probe flew through a blob of charged gas ... which may be related to its bizarre rotation and distinct wobble. Future missions near Uranus, or even to the planet’s surface ...

The complex mission profile had its origins ... barely a year before its scheduled encounter with Jupiter, the primary S-band receiver on Voyager 2 was shut down by fault-protection algorithms ...

It's hard to pinpoint the genesis of the Voyager mission ... same principles of gravity assist could be utilized for missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune. Flandro took up the challenge ...

Chop Shop on Tuesday (April 8) began seeking fans of robotic satellites and interplanetary spacecraft to help them create a ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic ... by Voyager 1 when it and its sister spacecraft, Voyager 2, conducted flybys of Jupiter and its moons in 1979. This was the first ...

For instance, the magnetometer (MAG), which was originally designed to measure the magnetic fields of Jupiter ... 2, four on Voyager 1. As the plutonium-238 that powers the spacecraft decays ...

"Each of these missions ... at Jupiter and its moons. Then in the 2000s, Cassini arrived at Saturn, and two remarkably durable rovers landed on Mars," reads the Chop Shop description. The Voyager ...