Voyager spacecraft has passed the area between the stars for over 47 years by gathering information about the vast universe. All traveling is the most affected by human objects and the day of the spacecraft has numbers. NASA's engineer is turning to shut down both science and science to make both symbolic missions.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Operation Engineer closed the Voyager 1 COSMIC RAY digestive system on February 25 and will shut down the low -cost musical instruments in Voyager 2 on March 24 NASA. announce Wednesday. If it is a measure of these energy conservation, the pair may have a few months left before the energy runs out. Both spacecraft now have enough power to work for another year before the engineer is forced to turn off two more tools. It is a horrible truth for travelers between the popular stars that are suffering from Fair share of errors in the past few years–
“Travelers have been a rock star Deep Space since the launch and we want to keep it as long as possible.” Suzanne Dodd, Voyager Project Manager JPL, SARS in the statement “But electricity operates low. If we do not turn off the instrument in each round, they may now have a couple of months before we have to announce the end of the mission.
Travelers use energy from the heat from the decay of betelium, which has been converted into electricity. Each year, the old spacecraft will come out of about 4 watts. In an attempt to preserve the power of the team, it is not necessary to keep the mission, including some science tools, each Voyager, starting with 10 science tools when they launched in 1977, but now only three are left.
Some tools are necessary to gather data during the planet flying. However, those tools were shut down as soon as the two spacecraft completed the survey of the solar planet Voyager 1 to the beginning of the space between the stars in 2012, while Voyager 2 arrived in the scope of 2018. Traveled far away from the surrounding bubbles.
Voyager spacecraft is left with tools designed to study the Heliosphere and Interstellar areas of the solar system. In October 2024, the team decided to shut down the Voyager 2 science tools, which measure the amount of atoms that have electricity costs in the effort to conserve energy.
Voyager 1 Ray Cosmicr, which was closed last week, is a three telescope designed to study the radiation by measuring energy and flux. Information collected by those telescopes to help the Voyager team stipulate when and where Voyager 1 is out of Heliosphere according to the NASA VOYAGER 2, which is specified for the shutdown of the end of this month.
Voyager 1 still has Magnetometer and Plasma Wave digestive systems and low energy tools will be turned off next year. Voyager 2 will continue to gather data through magnetic fields and puff wave tools, while its Ray Cosmic digestive system is determined to be closed in 2026.
“Voyager spacecraft has a traditional mission to study the outer planet.” Patrick Koehn Scientist Voyager Program SARS in the statement “Additional information that we have compiled since then not only But science bonuses that are valuable for Heliophysics, but also proof of engineering that is a model that entered the journey – starting almost 50 years ago and continued to this day. “
Voyager 1 launched on 5 September 1977, less than a month after the investigation of Voyager 2 twins began to travel to space. The spacecraft uses a faster route out of the asteroid belt faster than the twin and faces closely with Jupiter and Saturn, which has discovered two Jovian moons, Thebe and Metis and the new new moon and a new ring called G-Ring around Voyager 2, launched on August 20, 1977. On the path to the giant of the Suriyachak System, Jupiter and Saturn and explore the Uranus and Neptune
Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles (25 billion miles), while Voyager 2 is 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers).
With the current energy conservation plan, NASA's engineer believes that a pair of spacecraft can continue in the 2030s with one tool. “Every day of every day of the non -regional regional exploration travelers have disappeared.” “That means every day may be our last time.”