On 28 November 2017, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent Voyager 1 a command to fire four thrusters that had been silent since November 1980. The spacecraft was about 21 billion kilometres away, beyond the heliopause, and the team had to wait 19 hours and 35 minutes for the result to reach a Deep [...] The post NASA once reactivated Voyager 1 thrusters that had been unused for 37 years, sending commands across interstellar space to machinery built before many of the engineers operating it were born appeared first on Space Daily .
NASA once reactivated Voyager 1 thrusters that had been unused for 37 years, sending commands across interstellar space to machinery built before many of the engineers operating it were born
