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NASA tweaks Voyager probes to help them hit a half century of service
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in ...
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‘Consider again that dot’: How NASA's Voyager and Carl Sagan showed us Earth like never before
The sequence included the Sun and the planets Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn ... the Golden Record placed on the Voyager spacecraft, which carries sounds and images depicting life and culture ...
Nasa tries to give new lease of life to Voyager missions that have outlived their life-expectancy
The space agency said Wednesday that a sensor on Voyager 2 that analyses charged particles and cosmic rays would be turned ...
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NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes
Although the motor was originally tested to 500,000 steps (enough to make sure it lasted until Voyager 2 reached Saturn in August 1980), the motor will have since completed over 8.5 million steps ...
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NASA powers down two instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power
Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and several of Saturn’s moons, and Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. Each spacecraft still has three instruments apiec ...
NASA powers down instruments on Voyager spacecraft to conserve energy
NASA is powering down instruments on Voyager spacecraft to save energy and extend their interstellar missions.
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
The motor was tested to 500,000 steps on Earth, which guaranteed it would operate through Voyager 2’s flyby of Saturn in August 1980. Once it has shut off, the motor will have completed more ...