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NASA revives 'dead' thrusters on Voyager 1 after two decades of inactivity
NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, explores interstellar space. Antenna upgrades in Australia will enhance communication for ...
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending telework policy for nearly 5,500 employees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has told more than 5,500 hybrid and telework employees that they must return to on-site work ...
NASA Satellites Capture ‘River Tsunamis’ Surging Hundreds of Miles Inland
That’s according to researchers from Virginia Tech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who measured three large flood ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
Selfie on Mars? Here’s how NASA caught a new glimpse of the Martian surface
Astronomers recently received photographic evidence of movement on the surface of Mars. Here's how they got it.
Tough microbes found in NASA cleanrooms hold clues to space survival and biotech
A new study by scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and several institutes across India and Saudi Arabia has ...
Gravity study shows why the moon's two sides look so different
An exhaustive examination of lunar gravity using data obtained by two NASA robotic spacecraft is offering new clues about why ...