NASA thinks that Voyager 2 has enough power to keep running ... This influenced the decision to switch the plasma instrument off to conserve power rather than deactivating one of Voyager 2's ...
Engineers have turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument ... This factored into the mission's decision to turn this instrument off before others." The switch-off command, which was ...
NASA has switched off a measuring instrument on the Voyager 2 space probe in order to save power. In future, the space probe, which was launched in 1977, will no longer collect data with the ...
NEW YORK — To save power, NASA switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2's plasma science instrument ...