Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
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NASA Turns Off Two Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission
Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2’s low-energy charged ...
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NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life
Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. In fact, due to this distance, it takes over 23 hours to get a radio signal from Earth to Voyager 1, and 19½ hours to Voyager 2.
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue exploring space beyond the limits of the solar system. To save energy for further interstellar exploration, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
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NASA Extends Voyager's Journey Through the Cosmos By Powering Off 2 Scientific Instruments
To help them conserve energy, mission operators at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are shutting off one scientific instrument on Voyager 1 and another on Voyager 2. The move will buy ...
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NASA works to extend Voyager spacecraft mission again: 'Every day could be our last'
For nearly 50 years, Nasa’s twin Voyager spacecraft have just kept swimming – or zooming through space, collecting data from interstellar space farther than any other mission. NASA is trying ...
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Welcome Back, Voyager
In what is probably the longest-distance tech support operation in history, the Voyager mission team succeeded ... days of waiting between sending the patch and finding out if it worked, the ...
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NASA powers down two instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power
New York — NASA is switching off two science instruments on its long-running twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday an instrument on Voyager 2 that measures ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA’s twin ...
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NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes
Despite recent technical difficulties and diminishing energy reserves, Voyager 1 and 2 aren’t down for the count just yet. Mission engineers plan to continue overseeing Voyager 1’s own low ...
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NASA extends missions of 'deep space rock stars'
March 5 (UPI) --Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes nearly 50 years after their missions launched to ...