Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down

June 18th, 2022

Via: Scientific American:

This year NASA plans to begin turning off some of the Voyagers’ systems, eking out the spacecrafts’ remaining energy stores to extend their unprecedented journeys to about 2030. For the Voyagers’ scientists, many of whom have worked on the mission since its inception, it is a bittersweet time. They are now confronting the end of a project that far exceeded all their expectations.

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