NASA engineers are turning off two instruments on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to ensure these twin spacecraft can continue ...
The twin probes should operate for about a year before the team is forced to shut off yet more instruments. The Voyager ...
Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now ...
NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday ...
However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...
Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...
NASA has taken the decision to shut off two more instruments on the iconic Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, in order to ...
A pair of extraordinary space missions that have been headed out of the solar system for almost half a century are getting a ...
This means that, even at its current speed of around a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) a day, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft won't reach the Oort cloud for 300 years and won't exit it for ...
Even NASA's Voyager 1 space probe, moving at one million miles per day, will take several hundred years to reach the inner boundary of the Oort Cloud—and 300,000 years to exit the Oort Cloud ...