NASA to Power Off Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

In 1977, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)Voyager“. The probes known as Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are very, very far from Earth today. We can even call the Voyager probes the object made by man and which is the farthest from Earth. However, the Voyager probes are now has come to the end of the road case.

You may have wondered how a spacecraft can operate uninterruptedly for 45 years and fly out of the Solar System. NASA engineers attached these probes to radioactive from plutonium they provided energy. But there is no more energy. Voyager space probes, which consume 4 watts of energy per year, energy will not be able to provide they have become. As such, NASA decided to cut off the energy of the probes. Engineers will use the probes with their energy savings. by 2030 They will continue to use it. Of course, if all goes well…

Where are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 now?

The first mission of the probes, launched in 1977, was to fly around Saturn and Jupiter and collect information about these planets. A few years after launch this duty completing The probes were then sent to the depths of space. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 traveled so far out over the years that they even went outside of the Solar System. Making a statement in 1998, NASA announced that Voyager 1 farthest man-made object in space announced that. On the day of that announcement, Voyager 1 was 10.46 billion kilometers from Earth.

NASA’s Voyager probes Web site created. When we look at the information on this website; Voyager 1’s distance from Earth 23 billion 327 million 229 thousand 514 kilometers we see that. The distance of Voyager 2 from Earth is 19 billion 413 million 229 thousand 500 kilometers. With its final decision, NASA has made it possible for the probes to reach maximum distance will have made it to the top.