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Voyager Probes Face Power Crunch: NASA Shuts Down Instruments to Extend Mission
NASA is decommissioning two more instruments on the 47-year-old Voyager space probes due to dwindling power. Only three of ...
Space Waltz: ESA to put Strauss among the stars on his 200th birthday
The Waltz King's Blue Danube was left out of the 'Golden Records' attached to the Voyager probes in the 1970s. The city of ...
Radioisotope generators − inside the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators do not rely on chemical reactions like the batteries in your phone. Instead, they rely on the radioactive decay of elements to produce heat and eventually ...