NASA to Shut Off Voyager Systems to Save Power

NASA engineers have announced plans to disable a pair of science instruments on the iconic Voyager probes, hoping to extend the science missions of the two farthest human-made objects from Earth.

On Wednesday, the American space agency revealed that Voyager 1’s cosmic ray subsystem experiment was shut off on February 25. Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument will also be deactivated on March 24.

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