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Anonymousabout 3 hours ago

NASA shut down Voyager 1's Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on April 17, 2026, leaving just two science instruments running on the 49-year-old spacecraft as its plutonium power source declines by about 4 watts per year. With no funded successor mission capable of reaching interstellar space for decades, Voyager 1's remaining operational years represent an irreplaceable window into the physics beyond the heliopause.