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Low on power and spinning out of control, NASA's Lunar Trailblazer moon probe's future looks grim
"Based on telemetry before the loss of signal last week and ground-based radar data collected March 2, the team believes the ...
NASA Tracking Plane-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today
The space rock, which measures 150 feet across and is traveling at 38,922 miles per hour, is one of five on NASA's radar.
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Parts of California Are Sinking, and It Could Worsen the Effects of Sea-Level Rise, NASA Study Finds
Parts of California’s coastline are sinking, according to a NASA-led study published earlier this year in Science Advances.
NASA makes crucial move to keep its legendary Voyager craft alive
Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now ...
NASA extends missions of 'deep space rock stars'
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have conserved energy supplies on the record-setting Voyager 1 & 2 deep space ...
NASA powers down two Voyager science instruments to extend mission life
Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment ...
NASA squeezes more life from 47-year-old Voyager probes
However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...
NASA powers down two instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power
NASA is switching off two science instruments on its twin Voyager spacecraft to save power. The space agency said Wednesday ...
New JPL space mission seeks to unravel the mystery of cosmic ‘inflation’
The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists ...
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Voyagers facing power crunch, NASA shuts key instruments from 15 billion miles away
NASA recently shut down Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem and Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle will also be deactivated ...
NASA shuts down more Voyager science instruments to prolong mission
Engineers shut down the cosmic ray subsystem instrument on Voyager 1 on February 25. This tool, which consists of three telescopes that study cosmic rays, helped ...
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More Voyager Instruments Go Dark To Extend Life
NASA is turning off more science instruments on its Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes that could help extend the life of the ...