Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
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The Long Goodbye: More Instruments Shut Down On The Voyagers As End Nears
Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. From the highs of the 1970s and 1980s during their ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
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 ...
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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 ...
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NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (25 billion km) from Earth and Voyager 2 is 13 billion miles (21 billion km) away. That's so far that it can take almost two days for a radio signal to make the ...
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How Is Voyager Still Talking After All These Years?
The tech news channels were recently abuzz with stories about strange signals coming back from Voyager 1 ... enticing to pass up, and with the success of the Pioneer missions to Jupiter serving ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
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 ...
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Voyager 1 has just awakened — We thought he would never do it
Voyager 1, our most advanced spacecraft, sends signals to Earth for the fifth time in five months. The accomplishment is a testament to NASA engineers’ resourcefulness and persistence. Let’s dive ...
Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
The probes, which continue to travel billions of miles away, have both reached interstellar space – Voyager 1 in 2012 and ...