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NASA 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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