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Odysseus Lander Achieves “Dawn of Radio Astronomy From the Moon”
SciTechDaily· 12 hours agoOdysseus, a lunar lander, successfully touched down near the Moon’s South Pole on February 22,...
Where is Voyager 1 now? Repairs bring space probe back online as journey nears 50 years
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAs part of their one-way mission, both Voyager spacecraft also carry copies of the “Golden Records,”...
Cormac McCarthy Did Not Talk Craft, With One Surprising Exception
New York Times· 6 days agoNotoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a...
Edward Stone, who guided NASA’s Voyager to distant planets, dies at 88
Washington Post· 3 days agoEdward C. Stone, who opened a window on the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as the chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, supervising a pair of spindly, plutonium-powered ...
Voyager 1 conducts science ops for first time after six-months pause
Interesting Engineering· 6 days agoBoth voyagers are powered by nuclear batteries or radioisotope thermoelectric generator. Voyager 1...
Let’s Give It Up for Voyager 1, NASA’s Longest-Running Mission
Esquire· 3 days agoThe venerable spacecraft launched in 1977 and passed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the...
Faith & Values: You matter a lot. Just not that much.
Daily Press· 5 days agoMy sermon prep on Job 38 this past Sunday sent me off to discover humanity’s proper place in the...
After Months of Glitches and Gradual Fixes, Voyager 1 Is Fully Operational Once Again
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoAfter a technical malfunction late last year rendered all of its subsequent readings as useless, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft—which has spent nearly a half-century in space—has been brought back ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 Probe is Working Again After Several Months
iTech Post· 4 days agoNASA has launched several spacecraft with the objective of learning more about what's beyond the planet. The Voyager 1 is among the oldest tech that the space agency launched into space and ...