The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. The Voyager ...
The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...
Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...
NASA is shutting down instruments on the Voyager spacecraft, humanity's farthest explorers, allowing them to continue sending ...
It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar ...
However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...
"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...
Voyager 1 is over 24.14 billion kilometers from Earth and Voyager 2 is over 20.92 billion kilometers away. Listen to Story The energy-saving moves were necessary to extend their missions Each ...
Unfortunately, the time has now come to turn off more instruments on both spacecraft. NASA announced yesterday it has shut down the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1, and will shut down ...
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NASA Turns Off Two Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission
The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these ...