Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening half a century later.
spacedaily.com
On 17 April 2026, mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California sent commands to switch off the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment aboard Voyager 1. The instrument had been operating, almost without interruption, since the spacecraft left Cape Canaveral in September 1977. The shutdown was not a fault. It was the latest in a […]
    • Dionysus@leminal.space
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      5 days ago

      The person who wrote this was also as old as the engineers who built Voyager and assume everyone still uses incandescent bulbs.

      Didn’t the Mango Mussolini go on a rant once about LED bulbs?

      • kalpol@lemmy.ca
        2·
        4 days ago

        Its actually lower than a lot of LED bulbs. The heaters are what’s using most of the power.