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49 Years and Still Rationing Power: NASA's Latest Fix Buys Voyager 2 One More Year
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49 Years and Still Rationing Power: NASA's Latest Fix Buys Voyager 2 One More Year

NASA has sent a command to Voyager 2, now 13 billion miles from Earth, reallocating its remaining power so the probe's last three working science instruments can keep running through next year instead of shutting down early.

NASA Wants to Send Mars Rover's Earthbound Twin to the Moon
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NASA Wants to Send Mars Rover's Earthbound Twin to the Moon

Curiosity and Perseverance each have a full-scale twin on Earth, originally meant to stay in the lab forever. Now NASA is planning to convert one of them into PROMISE and send it to the Moon's south pole.

A Fuel-Starved Rocket Drifted in Space for Years — Then It Finally Smashed Into the Moon
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A Fuel-Starved Rocket Drifted in Space for Years — Then It Finally Smashed Into the Moon

The SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage that launched the Blue Ghost mission in 2025 spent years drifting through space before slamming into the Moon on August 5. NASA estimates the impact left a crater roughly 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep.