NASA's Voyager 1 team tackled complex challenges by successfully switching to backup thrusters after the primary ones became clogged with silicon dioxide. The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay ...

Switching to different thrusters would have presented no problem in decades past. Now, however, the dwindling power is presenting challenges for engineers. Over time, the Voyager team has been turning ...

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Response teams first shut down and cleared the area to investigate, and no hydrazine was detected. The response team terminated the ground emergency at approximately 5:22 p.m, base officials said.

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For whatever reason, the Video Graphics Array standard seems to attract a lot of hardware hacks. Most of them tend to center around tricking a microcontroller into generating the signals needed to ...