🚀 Voyager 1 isn’t done yet — not even close 🧠🔧📡

NASA just pulled off another miracle save:
🛰️ The spacecraft’s primary roll thrusters, offline since 2004, were believed permanently dead
🧯 With backup thrusters at risk of failure, JPL engineers gambled on a high-stakes heater reset
🔥 If wrong, it could’ve caused a small onboard explosion
📡 If right, it would restore control — 15.6 billion miles from Earth

They were right. The thrusters fired. Voyager 1 can still hold its course.

This wasn’t a reboot. It was old-school problem-solving, deep systems knowledge, and the audacity to trust an idea that might just work.

The most distant human object is still flying — because a team believed it could.

#Voyager1 #NASA #Space #Engineering #Resilience #DeepSpace
theregister.com/2025/05/15/voy…

NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix

: Failure could've triggered a small explosion

^{Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)}

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