The Low-Energy Charged Particles (LECP) science instrument was shut down by engineers at JPL to conserve power.

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission ...

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument.

On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an effort to conserve power ...

The instrument was used to measure low-energy charged particles, including ions, electrons, cosmic rays originating from our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to observe some of the most distant and ancient galaxies now it is in its new home, in orbit around the sun. Although it will be several months before it ...

Mission engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California turned off the cosmic ray subsystem experiment aboard Voyager 1 on Feb. 25 and will shut off Voyager 2's low-energy charged ...

The venerable Voyager spacecrafts are now nearly 50 years old, and having headed out beyond the orbit of Pluto and into interstellar space, the pair are the most distant man-made objects in the ...