NASA is decommissioning two more instruments on the 47-year-old Voyager space probes due to dwindling power. Only three of ...
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Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, followed by Voyager 2 in 2018, making them the only spacecraft to operate ...
These marvelous world records of electronics focus on communications—from quantum bandwidth to longest distances.
To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one ...
The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...
NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have just kept swimming – or zooming through space, collecting data from interstellar space ...
It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar ...
NASA recently shut down Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle will also be deactivated ...
NASA had to shut down even more scientific instruments on board its Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as power reserves dwindle.
Unfortunately, the time has now come to turn off more instruments on both spacecraft. NASA announced yesterday it has shut ...
"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" ...