NASA fires up Voyager 1 backup thrusters after 37 years

Sunday, 3 December 2017 (54 minutes ago)
NASA fires up Voyager 1 backup thrusters after 37 years

The Voyager team assembled a group of propulsion experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, for the job.

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Voyager 1, the probe which became the first man-made object to leave the solar system in 2012, has been away from home for a long, long time—approximately 40 years.