Futurism

NASA Engineers Were Disturbed by What Happened When They Tested Starliner’s Thrusters

Later this week, Boeing’s plagued Starliner is set to attempt its return journey from the International Space Station. But instead of ferrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to ...
PCGamesN

Interstellar sandbox Space Engineers 2 adds a full star system and planets in its biggest update yet

The biggest Space Engineers 2 update yet is finally here, and it's about to make the sequel to one of the best sandbox games feel much more like a real product. So far, the early-access alpha version ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a 'Miracle Save'

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline for upgrades, NASA engineers revived thrusters aboard the probe that have ...
WESA

A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix

Earlier this year, NASA mission controllers faced a challenging decision that could have marked the end of Voyager 1's decades-long journey. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system, the ...
CNN

47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft just fired up thrusters it hasn’t used in decades

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Engineers at NASA ...
New Atlas

NASA beats the clock to save Voyager 1 from deep space doom

It was race against time as NASA engineers recently raced to fix a thruster problem aboard the vintage Voyager 1 deep space probe. It's hard enough to repair a craft at the edge of the solar system, ...
Ars Technica

NASA update on Starliner thruster issues: This is fine

Before clearing Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule to depart the International Space Station and head for Earth, NASA managers want to ensure the spacecraft’s problematic control thrusters can help guide ...
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Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Engineers at NASA ...
Futurism

Stranded Starliner Spacecraft’s Thrusters Have Been Overheating, NASA Admits

The thrusters on Boeing’s cursed Starliner space capsule keep overheating — and NASA is hard at work on a fix for the issue that’s led, in part, to its astronauts being stranded on the International ...
Smithsonian Magazine

NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’

In a nail-biting mission to secure Voyager 1 before the only antenna that can send commands to the spacecraft goes offline for upgrades, NASA engineers revived thrusters aboard the probe that have ...