SMRTR TechOct 7, 2024Interesting Engineering

NASA sacrifices plasma instrument at 12 billion miles to let Voyager 2 live longer

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NASA shut down Voyager 2's Plasma Science Experiment to save power, hoping to keep the spacecraft, now nearly 13 billion miles away, exploring interstellar space with its four other working instruments until the 2030s.

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