NASA Powers Down Two Voyager Science Instruments To Extend Mission Life

Published Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:56:56 GMT | By Phys.org On https://phys.org

Upcomingweb USA Science Latest News - 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 science instruments will continue to operate on each spacecraft. The moves are part of an ongoing effort to manage the gradually diminishing power supply of the twin probes.