How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away
A spacecraft drifting through interstellar space. A set of thrusters declared dead in 2004. A backup system that could fail any day. And a team of engineers who refused to give up on the most distant human-made object in existence.The Voyager 1 team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory faced a brutal reality. The backup thrusters keeping the spacecraft aligned with Earth were clogging with residue, threatening failure as early as fall 2025 [citation:4]. The primary roll thrusters had been considered inoperable for over twenty years. But one engineer had an insight: what if the heaters weren't…
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