![]() Joe Moe holds forth on “The Importance of Building Monster Models!” for Heritage Auctions. They have “less memory than the key fob that opens your car door,” Spilker said. All of the data collected by the instruments on Voyager is stored on an eight-track tape recorder and sent to earth using a machine that uses up about as much power as a refrigerator light bulb, Scientific American said. The primitive computers onboard the probes don’t require much power. …The instrument’s hardwired electronics have survived the test of time remarkably well, in spite of its age. The decision to reduce power on the probes is meant to extend their life span a few more years and take them to about 2030, Scientific American said…. ![]() They’re farther away from Earth than any other man-made object, a record that will likely stay unbroken for decades. The probes launched 45 years ago, in 1977, and have pushed the boundaries of space exploration ever since. The epic interstellar journeys of NASA’s acclaimed Voyager probes are due to come to an end as the agency starts switching off their systems, Scientific American reported. “NASA is starting to shut down the Voyager probes, which launched in 1977 and made it deeper into space than anything since”: Yahoo! has the story.
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