Spaceships Are Not Operationally Immortal But They Don’t Stop Until They Crash
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6EGVC)
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is expected to continue its mission until about 2025. Its radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) will no longer supply enough power to operate its scientific instruments. NASA is limiting the Voyagers' processes to keep them operating until 2030. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977. They are identical probes that ...