The spacecraft's fault protection system monitors how much energy Voyager 1 has left ... the Cosmic-Ray Telescope the Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer and the Plasma Waves Experiment.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA’s pioneering Voyager 1 spacecraft is adventuring beyond our solar system, but all is not well with the elderly machine.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Ones and zeros. That’s the love language of computers. It’s how NASA’s long-lived Voyager 1 spacecraft communicates with its team ...

The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It took the Voyager 1 spacecraft over three decades to leave the solar system (and scientists still aren’t sure when it did). We need a new method of propulsion ...