NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

As also noted by the NASA Voyager 2 team on Twitter, this doesn’t leave the spacecraft completely blind to plasma in the interstellar medium as the plasma wave subsystem (PWS) is still active.

After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.

NASA has been forced to deactivate some components to keep the spacecraft online as they age, and Voyager 2 just lost an important one. NASA has opted to switch off the probe's plasma science ...

After a brief pause in communications with Voyager 1, NASA re-established a connection ... in 1977 when the spacecraft and its twin, Voyager 2, were launched on a tour of the gas giant planets ...

Voyager 2 is over 12 billion miles from Earth, making its way through interstellar space. Along its almost 50-year journey, the probe has seen more of the universe than we ever will. Now ...

The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods ... with Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, as well as other spacecraft exploring our solar ...

NEW YORK (AP) — To save power, NASA has switched off another scientific instrument on its long-running Voyager 2 spacecraft. The space agency said Tuesday that Voyager 2’s plasma science ...

Related: NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles Voyager 1's fault protection system can be triggered for a number of reasons, such as if the spacecraft overdraws its power ...

Related: NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles Engineers suspect that, during this period, Voyager 1's fault protection system triggered two more times. This forced the ...