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NASA Shuts Off Voyager 1 Instrument to Extend Spacecraft Life in Interstellar Space

via NASA·2d ago·2 sources

NASA engineers have powered down another instrument on Voyager 1 to conserve the 48-year-old spacecraft's dwindling plutonium power supply, buying more time for the farthest human-made object to keep transmitting from interstellar space.

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The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

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