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Voyagers facing power crunch, NASA shuts key instruments from 15 billion miles away
NASA recently shut down Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle will also be deactivated ...
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Voyager 1 Is Back! Legendary Probe Makes Contact From Interstellar Space
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 ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft ...
"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...
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NASA makes crucial move to keep its legendary Voyager craft alive
Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now ...
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More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies
Veteran probes close in on the half century More science instruments are being shut down on the Voyager probes as engineers ...
‘Every day it could their last’: NASA powers down Voyager probe to stay alive
NASA powers down Voyager probes to save power. Instruments shut off to extend life, as the trailblazing spacecraft push the ...
NASA shuts down more Voyager science instruments to prolong mission
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 ...
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NASA disables two scientific instruments on Voyager 1 and 2 to ensure continued operation
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 ...