Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science Engineers have turned off Voyager 2's plasma science instrument in an effort to eke out the veteran probe's dwindling power supply....

Dwindling power and problematic communications, but the spacecraft just keeps on going "We're definitely going to make the 50th anniversary," says Professor Garry Hunt, one of the scientists responsible for NASA's Voyager mission, as Voyager 1 recovers from an unexpected pause in communications....