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ruet

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26. This Is Surprising Actually.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Jun 22, 2022, 10:59 PM

Jun 2022

The headline is more than a bit misleading. NASA has said they could optimize the power usage on, at least Voyager I, to last until 2025. To see that they now expect them to be able to go to, at least, 2030 is awesome.

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Nasa is shutting down the Voyager space probes after 44 years [View all] Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP

Why? IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #1

I thought about the Star Trek movie when I posted the article Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 #3

I'd imagine because they're running out of power . . . hatrack Jun 2022 #6

I know that's why IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #7

Highly logical! hatrack Jun 2022 #9

My first thought. Solly Mack Jun 2022 #21

Little Angel ---- your question is MY QUESTION. wHY THE HELL-O IS NASA DOING THIS Trueblue1968 Jun 2022 #27

Maybe they think if they don't launch Voyager 6, V'Ger won't show up in about 250 years? IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #28

No! Say it isn't so! MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #2

More than a decade later, the epic journeys of these probes are due to come to an end. rsdsharp Jun 2022 #4

nooooooooo :( samnsara Jun 2022 #5

Why shut them down? Deuxcents Jun 2022 #8

the really dont have a choice moonshinegnomie Jun 2022 #13

Thank you for an easy to understand explanation.. Deuxcents Jun 2022 #17

Plutonium is the best choice moonshinegnomie Jun 2022 #25

Aww, noooo! :( Bless you Intrepid Travelers -Voyagers 1&2! electric_blue68 Jun 2022 #10

V-GER is approaching our Solar System and will be uploading PCIntern Jun 2022 #11

The OP says Voyager ll was launched before Voyager l. brush Jun 2022 #12

Because of their flight plans and planetary alignments Sympthsical Jun 2022 #20

Wonderful, wonderful PBS/NOVA episode all about Voyager hatrack Jun 2022 #14

In a few hundred years some salvage company will lay claim to it as interstellar space junk pecosbob Jun 2022 #15

Some future Robert Ballard will find them again... hunter Jun 2022 #16

I think it's neat it took a family photo of us.. Our pale blue dot...nt mitch96 Jun 2022 #18

V GER BadGimp Jun 2022 #19

Perhaps they should moniss Jun 2022 #22

Nooooooo! Hekate Jun 2022 #23

Because keeping things going requires electrical power, and they're in the endgame for that... JHB Jun 2022 #24

Sigh. Long may Voyager drift through space. Hekate Jun 2022 #29

This Is Surprising Actually. ruet Jun 2022 #26

Don't dispair. Xolodno Jun 2022 #30