Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
But the Voyager mission team left the others turned on to collect data about the heliosphere, as well as interstellar space. Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, or the space between stars ...
NASA’s Next Mission Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Our Solar System’s Edge
The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...
NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life
Voyager 1 reached the edge of the heliosphere and the beginning of interstellar space in 2012; Voyager 2 reached the boundary in 2018. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar space ...
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Everything Under the Sun
A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...
‘Voyager’s failing signals’: The urgent need for a new deep space probe
NASA’s Voyager probes are failing, creating an urgent need for a new deep-space mission. A proposed interstellar probe could ...
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NASA's twin Voyager probes are shutting down some instruments to conserve power
But the Voyager mission team left the others turned on to collect data about the heliosphere, as well as interstellar space.Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, or the space between stars ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
"The Voyagers have been deep space rock stars since launch, and we want to keep it that way as long as possible!" NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft ...
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NASA extends missions of 'deep space rock stars'
The remaining powered instruments also will help the probes explore interstellar space, which is the region located outside the heliosphere. The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes reached the edge of ...
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NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life
Voyager 1 reached the edge of the heliosphere and the beginning of interstellar space in 2012; Voyager 2 reached the boundary in 2018. No other human-made spacecraft has operated in interstellar ...
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NASA's twin Voyager probes are shutting down some instruments to conserve power
The wall of fire. At one point in time, both probes went past the heliosphere. That is where solar winds emitted from our sun still blow things outwards. But what Voyager 2, backed up by data from ...