interstellar mission

Members of the Voyager team celebrate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after receiving data about the health and status of Voyager 1 for the first time in months.

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Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense

10:49am April 23, 2024

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, Voyager 1 is once again able to communicate with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.

The Voyager spacecraft have ventured far outside our solar system. Now a team of scientists is hoping to take the next interstellar mission even farther.

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If NASA greenlights this interstellar mission, it could last 100 years

10:48am October 26, 2021

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

Scientists who want to understand what's beyond our solar system have designed an interstellar spacecraft that could go out farther and faster than the famous Voyager probes.