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NASA's Quest to Upgrade the Voyager Probes From 16 Billion Miles Away
NASA's Quest to Upgrade the Voyager Probes From 16 Billion Miles Away (extremetech); Inside NASA's 'Big Bang': A Daring Plan to Keep the Distant Voyagers Alive (nytimes)
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newsextremetechNASA's Quest to Upgrade the Voyager Probes From 16 Billion Miles AwaynewsnytimesInside NASA’s ‘Big Bang’: A Daring Plan to Keep the Distant Voyagers AlivenewsspacedailyVoyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a