21 sats \ 6 replies \ @Cje95 1 Nov \ on: NASA sends a shutdown signal to Voyager 2: It has received it at 2 billion km news
So from what I’m hearing no Voyager 2 isn’t shut down. They turned off another instrument something they have done with each voyager but no it has not shut down.
Via SpaceandDefense.io
Voyager 2 has enough power to keep running one science instrument into the 2030s, but doing that requires selecting which of its other instruments need to be turned off.
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You work for NASA?
The article title is actually deceiving because after reading the article more thoroughly I found out they make themselves clear that NASA is doing "gracefully" system shit downs to save energy.
NASA recently made one of its hard decisions to close down Voyager 2 after four decades of discovery. This was done out of care and consideration to preserve the spacecraft’s energy for future use. Although it generates a little less power per year, the spacecraft is powered by a generator that uses heat from decaying plutonium to create electricity. NASA wants to continue using the Voyager 2 until the 2030s.
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