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Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
NASA is set to shut down the Low Energy Charged Particle Instrument on Voyager 2 as part of efforts to conserve power and extend the spacecraft's mission life. This instrument measures ions ...
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NASA switches off Voyager instruments to extend life of the two interstellar spacecraft 'Every day could be our last.'
NASA engineers are turning off two instruments to ensure that the twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, can continue ...
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NASA says Voyager 2 is the second human object ever to touch interstellar space — the void between stars
About 11 billion miles from Earth, a NASA probe has broken another record for humanity. The space agency separately launched its twin Voyager spacecraft in 1977 with a mission to explore the outer ...
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NASA’s Voyager Space Probe’s Reserve Power, And The Intricacies Of RTG-Based Power Systems
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 and 2 space probes have been operating non-stop for over 45 years, making their way from Earth to our solar system’s outer planets and beyond. Courtesy of the ...
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NASA Powers Down Equipment on Voyager Probes as They Struggle for Life
There's more bad news for NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. The twin space probes left the solar system in 2012 and 2018 respectively, and are currently over 15 billion and 13 billion miles ...
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Our Far-Flung Voyager Spacecraft Just Keep Going and Going
Voyager 2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1, 16 days later. Both spacecraft carried TV cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, and photopolarimeters to ...
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New power plan will keep Voyager 2 running even longer
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Voyager 2 has been exploring interstellar space — the region of space beyond our Sun ...
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Voyager 2
Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. From the highs of the 1970s and 1980s during their ...
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NASA's Voyager 2 probe detects increase in cosmic rays as it approaches the heliosphere
the heliosphere NASA's Voyager 2 probe has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the space craft has revealed. Currently on a journey toward interstellar ...
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Voyager: A History in Photos
The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...
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Voyager 2
Scientists gathered much of the knowledge about Uranus after NASA's robotic spacecraft conducted a five-day flyby in 1986. Recent analysis of images captured by NASA's Voyager 2 has suggested that ...