NASA's historic Voyager spacecraft shut down to save power
Space technology is always one step ahead. With the rapid advances in this sector, drastic decisions have to be made with ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for ...
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NASA Shuts Off Voyager Science Instrument, More Power Cuts Ahead to Keep Both Probes Going
Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory turned off Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment on February 25, and will shut off the low-energy charged particle instrument aboard ...
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NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life
Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) NASA has powered down certain instruments on the Voyager spacecraft to extend their operational life. Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy ...
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NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (25 billion km) from Earth and Voyager 2 is 13 billion miles (21 billion km) away. That's so far that it can take almost two days for a radio signal to make the ...
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NASA works to extend Voyager spacecraft mission again: 'Every day could be our last'
According to NASA, Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles from Earth, and Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles. The space agency continues to receive data from both space probes through the Deep ...
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Voyager 1 has just awakened — We thought he would never do it
Voyager 1, our most advanced spacecraft, sends signals to Earth for the fifth time in five months. The accomplishment is a testament to NASA engineers’ resourcefulness and persistence. Let’s dive ...
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NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes
Voyager 1 and 2 continue to make history every day, as they transmit data back to Earth while traveling further into deep space. But there will come a time when amassing distance is all they are ...
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The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
However, no missions capture the power of RTGs quite like the Voyager missions. NASA launched the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 ...
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NASA powers down two instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power
Last week, NASA powered down an instrument on Voyager 1 designed to study cosmic rays. The energy-saving moves were necessary to extend their missions, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd at ...
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NASA's twin Voyager probes are shutting down some instruments to conserve power
Space is *** very big place for real, and one of the biggest goals of humanity over the course of the last few decades is the concept of us sending things out into the Earth's orbit or into the ...