47 years have passed since the Voyageer twin spacecraft began its historical mission. After they traveled across space between the stars, beyond the Earth from any other man-made things, its nuclear batteries are exhausted-but NASA takes measures to pressure the largest possible amount of aging.
Voyageers loses about 4 watts every year, so to maintain energy, NASA engineers have been closed Some of the science tools that each investigation carries. The Cosmic COSMIC 1 cosmic system experience was turned off on February 25. When a low -energy particle tool is closed on Voyageer 2 on March 24, both the spacecraft will have three out of ten identical scientific tools called it with operation.
“The electric power is low,” said Suzanne Dod, director of the Voyager project. “If we do not turn off a tool on each Voyageer now, they may have just a few months of power before we need to announce the end of the mission. The Voyageers team has been rock music stars in Space Space since its launch, and we want to keep it in this way as long as possible.”
The tools were on the investigations This purpose has been turned off before. Priority was given to the only equipment that remained supported after the Flyby spacecraft has completed the solar system to collect data on Hellenver space and among the stars. With the latest closure, NASA says Voyageer’s investigations should have enough energy to continue working for another year.
Voyageers has greatly exceeded the expected life of the task of exploring the plan. Both have been built only to the past five years, but the scientific data they have collected since then is unique, which stimulates NASA to expand opportunities to survive. The agency managed to fix Voyageer 1 when it is Stop sending viable data in 202315 billion miles from the ground, bring it Return online again in June last year.
Future energy saving plans to turn off the low-energy charged particles on board Voyageer 1 next year, and the Voyageer 2 cosmic sub-system in 2026. With these efforts, NASA believes that the two investigations can continue to work with at least one scientific tool in the twenties of the last century-which provides unexpected challenges.
“Every minute of every day, Voyageers explores an area where no spacecraft was not before,” said the Voyageer Linda Spilker project. This also means that every day can be the last. But on that day it can also bring revelation among stars. So, we are withdrawing all the stations, and we do our best to make sure that Voyageers 1 and 2 continue to follow them for the utmost time. “
