One year ago, on Nov. 5, 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 became only the second spacecraft in history to leave the heliosphere — the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by our Sun. At a ...

More than a week after accidentally cutting off communications with the Voyager 2 probe, NASA officials heard a hopeful signal that may allow them to reestablish contact with the interstellar traveler ...

For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere – the protective bubble of particles and magnetic ...

NASA has decided to turn off one of Voyager 2’s five remaining instruments—yet another sign that the space probes may be nearing the end of their historic missions. In an October 1 announcement, the ...

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NASA’s aging interstellar probe is gradually losing power, forcing the space agency to shut down one of its science instruments to conserve its energy. Launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission has ...

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The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less to use ...

They thought it was gonna be a long, long time. NASA has successfully “reestablished full communications” with Voyager 2, an interstellar deep space probe which the agency sent offline with a faulty ...

The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the ...

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