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NASA shuts off instrument on Voyager 1 to keep spacecraft operating
- April 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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On April 17, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or LECP. The nuclear-powered spacecraft is running low on power, and turning off the LECP is considered the best way to keep humanity's first interstellar explorer going.
Originally published at Phys.org