On April 17 2026, 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, […]
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Enceladus Orbilander Flagship Mission
The second-highest priority new Flagship mission in Origins, Worlds, and Life: A Decadal Strategy for Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032 is the Enceladus Orbilander [1].
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Voyager 1 Interstellar Mission Resumes Regular Operations
NASA’s Voyager 1 has resumed regular operations 1 following a pause in communication last month. The probe had unexpectedly turned off its primary radio transmitter, called an X-band transmitter, and […]