Both spacecraft, launched in 1977, are the only human-made objects in interstellar space, with Voyager 1 over 15 billion miles from Earth and Voyager 2 over 13 billion miles away. This summary was ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2's low-energy charged ...

and Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles. The space agency continues to receive data from both space probes through the Deep Space Network even years after they crossed the heliosphere, the protective ...

March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...

NASA is shutting down a science instrument on Voyager 2 to conserve power and sustain the 47-year-old spacecraft’s mission in deep space., Science News - Times Now ...

In an effort to conserve Voyager 2's dwindling energy and extend the spacecraft's mission, NASA has shut down another of its instruments. They did it with the Plasma Spectrometer in October 2024, and ...

The Voyager spacecraft rely on electricity generated ... of power before we would need to declare end of mission.” Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, originally designed to fly by the largest planets ...

Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2’s low-energy charged ...

Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 on a grand tour ... While both Voyager spacecraft started their mission launching from Florida with 10 science instruments, the spacecraft operators at NASA ...

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

However, no missions capture the power of RTGs quite like the Voyager missions. NASA launched the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 ...