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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

Tom's Hardware·https://www.tomshardware.com/author/jowi-morales·about 1 month ago
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(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory had to turn off Voyager 1’s LECP, or Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, in a bid to reduce power consumption as its nuclear power source continues to lose power over time due to aging. According to the government agency, an unexpected drop in power levels forced the team to reduce the number of instruments on board and prevent it from activating its undervoltage protection system. This would force the spacecraft to deactivate components on its own and require manual intervention from the flight team to ensure that it can continue operating until (and, hopefully, beyond) its 50th year in space.…

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