Voyager 1 Shuts Down a Sensor to Stretch Its Interstellar Mission
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NASA’s Voyager 1 cut power to the Low-energy Charged Particles instrument to conserve energy after a power drop, leaving two instruments still operating as the aging probe drifts through interstellar space. The shutdown buys about a year while engineers pursue a long-term, lower-power “Big Bang” fix to swap in efficient hardware and extend the mission's life.
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- The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off NPR
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