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Voyager 1 just powered down a nearly 50-year-old instrument to stay alive in deep space. The spacecraft is running critically low on energy, forcing NASA to make careful sacrifices to keep its mission going.…

After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR: The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity.…

From Latest from Tom's Hardware: Voyager 1 gets emergency instrument shutdown to solve escalating power crisis and give it ‘about a year of breathing room’ — interstellar spacecraft's nuclear power source is dying, leading to intensifying countermeasures