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NASA shuts off another Voyager science instrument to save power. The spacecraft is now 15 billion miles from Earth

NASA shuts off Voyager 1's Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, which has been operating since Voyager 1 launched in 1977. NASA has shut off a key science instrument onboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, to help it continue its journey into deep space, over 25 billion km (15 billion miles) from Earth. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the decision to send co... [4235 chars]

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