NASA just performed a miracle save for its farthest spacecraft

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Voyager 1 leaving the solar system

NASA engineers have brought a set of obsolete thrusters back from the dead on the Voyager 1 probe, just before losing their ability to talk to the aging spacecraft. 

Over a half-century, Voyager 1 has sprinted about 38,000 mph and become the farthest human-made object, crossing into interstellar space. For the past two decades of its journey, the spa...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-voyager-1-dead-spacecraft-thrusters

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