Nasa tries to give new lease of life to Voyager missions that have outlived their life-expectancy
The space agency said Wednesday that a sensor on Voyager 2 that analyses charged particles and cosmic rays would be turned off later this month. Last Monday, Nasa turned off an experiment on Voyager 1
NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes
However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On March 5, Voyager mission engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California confirmed they have already turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment.
NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched in 1977, are the longest-running missions to send data home. But as their power ...
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are undergoing power-saving measures, shutting down instruments to extend their journey into interstellar space and continue sending valuable data back to Earth.
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