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NASA Is Planning to Shut Down Another Piece of Voyager 2
In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its ...
Scientific American10d
NASA’s Voyager Probes Lose One Instrument Each as Power Wanes
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...
NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going
Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, ...
Earth.com4d
NASA pulls another life-saving maneuver for Voyager from 15 billion miles away
Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...
NASA powers down 2 instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power
NEW YORK — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space ...
The Free Press Journal10d
NASA To Power Down Another Instrument Aboard Voyager 2 Spacecraft To Conserve Energy
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977, originally tasked with exploring the outer planets. Their groundbreaking discoveries included Jupiter's faint rings, Saturn's complex moons ...
NASA disables two scientific instruments on Voyager 1 and 2 to ensure continued operation
Launched in 1977, the Voyager spacecrafts are currently exploring interstellar space. Voyager 1 is now 24.14 billion ...
New Atlas10d
NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...
Power saver mode: Nasa switches off instrument aboard Voyager 2 to conserve energy
Nasa plans to shut down another instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power, following a similar action on Voyager 1. This step ...
Orlando Sentinel11d
NASA powers down two instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power
Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiec ...