NASA Extends Voyager 2 Mission With Power-Saving Maneuver

a spacecraft consisting of a large round radar dish, three long pole-like appendages extending from an octagonal body

NASA engineers have successfully executed a critical power-saving procedure on the Voyager 2 spacecraft, allowing the veteran probe to keep its remaining science instruments operating for at least another year. Managed by the agency’s Live Science in Pasadena, California, the mission relies on an ingenious engineering hack nicknamed the “Big Bang.” NASA Extends Voyager 2 … Read more