NASA Forced to Turn Off Voyager 2 Instrument Due to Spacecraft’s Loss of Power
On September 26, NASA engineers issued the command to turn off the plasma instrument, which took 19 hours to reach the distant probe and another 19 hours for it to return a signal. NASA confirmed that the switch-off command was executed, and the spacecraft is operating normally afterward.
Special equipment built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s and attached to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft ...
NASA's Voyager 2 has turned off its PLS instrument to save energy after 47 years in space, with MIT reflecting on the mission ...
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NASA Engineers Extend Voyager 1’s Lifespan: Thrusters Reactivated After Decades of DormancyNASA engineers have successfully reactivated a set of thrusters on Voyager 1, unused for decades, to keep the 47-year-old ...
Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA spacecraft just clocked a distance 60 times farther from the ...
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