Launched in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, now 25 billion km away, continues to send data from interstellar space. Despite a shrinking power supply and communication delays, it remains the most distant human-made object and is expected to transmit basic data into the 2030s.
Voyager 1, azalan enerji kaynaklarını korumak ve görev süresini uzatmak amacıyla Düşük Enerjili Yüklü Parçacıklar (LECP) deneyini kapattı. NASA, aracın yıldızlararası uzaydan veri göndermeye devam edebilmesi için enerji yönetimini optimize etmeye çalışıyor.
NASA is implementing a 'Big Bang' strategy to conserve power on the aging Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is losing power annually. Non-essential systems, including the LECP experiment, are being deactivated to ensure communication and data transmission through the 2030s.
Die NASA hat das Low-energy Charged Particles Instrument (LECP) der Raumsonde Voyager 1 abgeschaltet, nachdem die Leistung nach einem regulären Flugmanöver am 27. Februar 2026 unerwartet gefallen war. Die Radionuklidbatterie der Sonde verliert jährlich etwa 4 Watt Leistung. Mit dem Abschalten soll ein Unterspannungsschutz verhindert werden, der weitere Komponenten automatisch deaktivieren würde. Die Sonde ist bereits 25 Milliarden Kilometer von der Erde entfernt und seit 2012 im interstellaren Raum unterwegs.
This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.
