To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one ...
NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures charged particles and cosmic rays ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are both exploring uncharted territory in interstellar space. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, sent a command for Voyager 1 to power ...
NASA has announced plans to switch off another science instrument on the Voyager 2 spacecraft later this month, in a bid to ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
On Wednesday, the space agency announced that an instrument on Voyager 2, which measures charged particles and cosmic rays, will be shut down later this month. Just last week, NASA also turned off ...
A photo of the low-energy charged particle instrument from 1977. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/JHUAPL Voyager 1 and 2 carry the same 10 instruments. Theoretically, this means turning off a particular ...