NASA Powers Down Voyager Instruments to Extend Historic Mission

NASA is doing everything it can to keep the Voyager missions going

The NewsNASA is doing everything it can to keep the incredibly long-lived Voyager probes going, with the agency cutting power to some of their scientific instruments. Launched in 1977, the spacecraft are the most far-flung human-made objects in the universe and the only to ever operate in interstellar space: Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and radio signals between it and our planet take 23 hours to arrive. Voyager 2 is some …

NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft: 'Every day could be our last.'

NASA engineers are turning off two instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to ensure these twin spacecraft can continue exploring interstellar space.

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By switching off instruments, an end of Voyager 1 and 2 can be averted again. Three measuring instruments each continue to send data

The twin probes »Voyager 1« and »Voyager 2« are billions of kilometres away from Earth. But their energy is running out. However, how to operate it until the 2030s.

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