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NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment has been operating almost without interruption since Voyager 1 launched in 1977 - almost 49 years.
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause