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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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NASA shut down one of Voyager 1’s remaining science instruments on April 17 to extend the decades-old probe’s working life, a pragmatic move to conserve diminishing electrical power from its radioisotope source. This power-management decision is part of a broader pattern of aging missions encountering limits, underscored by the recent loss of contact and formal end of the MAVEN orbiter.
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