NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission

The farthest-flung human-made objects will be able to take their science-gathering even farther, thanks to these energy-conserving measures. Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24. Three […]
Posted on March 5, 2025
Sign up for our newsletter:

Categories

1
11
3
1
1
1
29
1
1
1
59
1
52
196
2
6
369
3
15
3
24
1
10
1
4
12
18
4
148
1
4
18
2
198
37
6
1
11
17
2
1
10
103
10
13
1
2
1
2
3
4
Io
4
3
2
14
29
12
43
5
14
6
1
6
3
262
10
1
6
2
1
1
2
221
7
10
1
10
1
4
345
1
624

Blog Posts

Newsletter Archive