NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year
- An artist's depiction of NASA's Voyager 2 probe.
- (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA just made an interstellar tweak to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, known as the "Big Bang", to keep its remaining 50-year-old science instruments running a little longer.
- Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, called Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat produced by the decay of plutonium.
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- An artist's depiction of NASA's Voyager 2 probe.
- (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA just made an interstellar tweak to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, known as the "Big Bang", to keep its remaining 50-year-old science instruments running a little longer.
- Voyager 2 and its twin launched in 1977, called Voyager 1, rely on a form of nuclear battery known as a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that uses the heat produced by the decay of plutonium.
Sources: Space