+- Voyager 2 Just Keeps On Going
Submitted by ITSadmin on Wed, 2008-01-09 21:53
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The Voyager 2 spacecraft passed through the heliosheath boundary, also called the solar wind termination shock, on August 30, 2007. A classic example of overdesign, the Plasma Science instrument, radio and power supply (a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator using silicon-germanium thermocouples) are among the systems on Voyager 2 still working 30 years after lauch.
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