NASA has turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments as power conservation becomes crucial for the interstellar ...

Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe's ...

To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency ...

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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 ...

These problems will only grow over the next few years, as the plutonium-powered systems that power the two spacecraft slowly run out of juice. In order to postpone the moment when the spacecraft ...

"All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution than they once did," Suzanne Dodd, Voyager's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The distant and cold Voyager 1 spacecraft did a clever thruster trick to help it phone home.

"All the decisions we will have to make going forward are going to require a lot more analysis and caution than they once did," Suzanne Dodd, Voyager's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

Engineers working on NASA's Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft's thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive commands ...