NASA hopes to keep Voyager 2 operational through the 2030s, but by then, it will likely have only one active science instrument. As power levels continue to dwindle, engineers will need to ...

NASA has opted to switch off the probe's plasma science instrument. Voyager 2 launched in 1977, just a few weeks before its twin. After leaving Earth behind, Voyager 2 embarked on what NASA termed ...

Let’s check out the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission status webpage for Voyager 1 and 2. It’ll be fun. These two tiny ...

With 4 Watt of power less to use by its systems per year, the decision was made to disable the plasma spectrometer (PLS) instrument. As also noted by the NASA Voyager 2 team on Twitter ...

Most of the current understanding of Uranus comes from NASA’s Voyager 2 mission, which passed the ... The new research will help inform the design and instruments for this mission to avoid ...