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10 billion km in 3 minutes! Epic video captures a spacecraft's 8-year odyssey to planet Mercury

After nearly eight years navigating the inner Solar System, the BepiColombo mission has released incredible footage showing the spacecraft's voyage through the inner Solar System. The video shows the ...

Engineers teach spacecraft to 'dream' their way to the space station

Docking with the ISS may seem simple. However, actually doing so shows how difficult orbital mechanics can be. It's like ...
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NASA’s Voyager 2 Space Probe Just Got New Software From Over 13 Billion Miles Away

Nearly 49 years after it launched into space aboard a Titan III rocket, NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe received yet another software update, this time reaching the speeding probe from nearly 13.3 ...
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Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware

After a successful trial on Voyager 2, NASA plans to execute its “big bang” power diversion on humanity’s most distant space probe. Reading time 3 minutes Blitzing through interstellar space at over ...
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NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are very low on power after nearly 50 years. How long can they keep going?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pioneering Voyager probes might only have a few years left to explore interstellar space, and that's assuming a planned, risky ...