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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
NASA operators turned off Voyager 2's plasma science experiment in October 2024. The experiment aimed to measure how much ...
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NASA switches off instrument on Voyager 2 spacecraft to save power
To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2's plasma science instrument — designed ...
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Voyager 2
Last February 25 the cosmic ray system (CRS) on Voyager 1 was disabled, with the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument ... be turned off next year, with that same year Voyager 2’s CRS also ...
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Voyager, Still Going After All These Years
Launched in 1977 to study the large outer planets, Voyager 1 and 2 are now ... if it were turned off, says Dodd. Instead, NASA keeps it on because the instrument generates some heat in a ...
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As Voyager 2 Gets Farther From the Sun, Space Gets Less Empty
An artist’s concept shows NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft ... The latest data comes courtesy of the Plasma Wave Science instrument aboard Voyager 2, now 11 billion miles away.
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NASA's Voyager 2 probe detects increase in cosmic rays as it approaches the heliosphere
Voyager 2, launched in 1977, will soon find out what the Solar System is like in, and beyond, the heliosphere NASA's Voyager 2 ... probe's Cosmic Ray Subsystem instrument has measured about ...