Ars Technica

NASA to put Starliner’s thrusters through an extensive workout before next launch

More than half a year after an empty Starliner spacecraft safely landed in a New Mexico desert, NASA and Boeing still have not decided whether the vehicle’s next flight will carry any astronauts. In ...
CNN

Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again

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CNN

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

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Ars Technica

Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought

As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA astronaut, Butch Wilmore, had to take manual control of the vehicle. But as ...
Gizmodo

NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos for 47 years, collecting precious data beyond the solar system. All that interstellar travel, however, is taking its toll on the probe.
KTVZ

Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again

(CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, in the nick of time before a planned communications blackout. A side ...