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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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NASA Turns Off Instrument on Spacecraft Due to Shrinking Power Supply
On Tuesday, NASA said it shut down Voyager 2's plasma science instrument—responsible for ... The team has confirmed that the switch-off command was executed without incident and the probe ...
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NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead'
NASA engineers have miraculously revived the Voyager 1 interstellar probe's backup thrusters — components that hadn't been ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
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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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NASA engineers finally fix Voyager 1 spacecraft — from 15 billion miles away
The fix comes seven months after the probe went off the rails and started talking gibberish, NASA representatives said in a statement on June 13. NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend ...