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Voyager, Sputnik and more: New collectible pins celebrate humanity's robotic space explorers
A design studio's plan for a new collectible set seeks to "pin" down the pivotal probes from space exploration history. Chop ...
Keeping Voyager Alive: NASA’s Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as the Iconic Mission Nears Its End
Linda Spilker, the Voyager mission’s project scientist, spoke to Gizmodo about the challenges that come with operating the ...
Going where no spacecraft has gone before: NASA shuts down cosmic ray instrument on Voyager 2
The decision comes as the Voyager spacecraft face diminishing power supplies due to the gradual decay of their radioactive ...
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The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space
But over time, the probes’ power supply has gradually diminished. The Voyager spacecraft rely on electricity generated from the heat of decaying plutonium, and both are losing an estimated 4 ...
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NASA's historic Voyager spacecraft shut down to save power
This has been the case with NASA's twin spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. In order to save power so that both objects can continue to explore space, experts have shut down the cosmic ray ...