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Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments (hackaday.com)
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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

How do they even still have energy to send and receive signals? That's one heck of a durable power source.

It's literally decaying plutonium-238. And because it decays, it's putting out less power than when it started. They've shut down certain operations to conserve power, and obviously prioritize things like communication back to earth.