US EditionNASA Powers Down Voyager Instruments to Extend Historic Mission
- NASA's Voyager 1 powered down its cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25 to save power, according to engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
- Voyager 2 will shut off its low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24, as part of the mission's power conservation efforts.
- NASA experts anticipate the probes can operate with at least one science instrument each into the 2030s, despite potential challenges ahead.
- Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist at JPL, stated that the team will lose the ability to make identical particle measurements in interstellar space.
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NASA is doing everything it can to keep the Voyager missions going
The NewsNASA is doing everything it can to keep the incredibly long-lived Voyager probes going, with the agency cutting power to some of their scientific instruments. Launched in 1977, the spacecraft are the most far-flung human-made objects in the universe and the only to ever operate in interstellar space: Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and radio signals between it and our planet take 23 hours to arrive. Voyager 2 is some …
By switching off instruments, an end of Voyager 1 and 2 can be averted again. Three measuring instruments each continue to send data
The twin probes »Voyager 1« and »Voyager 2« are billions of kilometres away from Earth. But their energy is running out. However, how to operate it until the 2030s.
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