When will Voyager 1 go silent and what are NASA’s plans for its final days? | NYGazet

In August 2012 Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the boundary where the Sun’s solar wind gives way to the interstellar medium, the first time any craft had sampled that interface directly.

Voyager 1 has been answering questions from the edge of interstellar space for 47 years, but its operational life is finite. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are now managing a carefully prioritised plan of power conservation, instrument... [258 chars]