NASA recently shut down Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle will also be deactivated ...
At its current speed, experts at NASA predict Voyager 1 will take three centuries to reach the Oort cloud. To get to the other side of the cloud would take another 30,000 years. Engineers predict ...
"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...
Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now ...
Veteran probes close in on the half century More science instruments are being shut down on the Voyager probes as engineers ...
NASA powers down Voyager probes to save power. Instruments shut off to extend life, as the trailblazing spacecraft push the ...
Engineers shut down the cosmic ray subsystem instrument on Voyager 1 on February 25. This tool, which consists of three telescopes that study cosmic rays, helped ...
Just last week, NASA also turned off an instrument on Voyager 1 that is designed to study cosmic rays. These energy-saving measures are crucial to prolonging the missions, as explained by Voyager ...