A tweak in the operations of #NASA's #Voyager2 spacecraft should allow instruments to remain running for several more years. Declining power from the spacecraft's RTG would have required the project to shut down an instrument this year. Engineers instead decided to turn off a voltage regulator, freeing up power it had been using for the instruments. With the voltage regulator off, there should be enough power to operate all the current instruments to at least 2026.

jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyage

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