The fourth live-action "Star Trek" TV show made some mistakes along the way, but it was arguably held back by the time it was ...

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left ... Instead of relying on tiny glimpses of sunlight as a power source, the pair are relying on radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less ...

It is expected that their plutonium power sources will eventually stop supplying electricity, at which point their instruments and their 20W transmitters will die. The Voyager project manager ...

An Apollo-era TWTA, similar to the S-band and X-band power amps used on Voyager. Source: Ken Shirriff On the transmit side, both the X-band and S-band transmitters use separate exciters and ...

(CNN) – NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with the deep-space probe Voyager 1. The spacecraft is now operating normally. A dwindling power supply caused a weekslong blackout for ...

The issue resulted from the spacecraft’s dwindling power supply, which Voyager’s mission team has tried to protect by turning off nonessential systems. Of the 10 science instruments Voyager 1 ...

It took 37 hours for mission controllers to figure out if the interstellar command had worked as Voyager 2 is billions of miles away from Earth. Staff used the "highest-power transmitter" to send ...

power door locks and a CD player. All models except for the base Voyager provided standard seven-passenger seating. For 2001, the Chrysler Voyager was redesigned and resided only as a short wheelbase ...