{"id":166376,"date":"2023-06-25T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T15:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nasa-hack-squeezes-more-time-out-of-dying-voyager-2-probe"},"modified":"2023-06-25T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T15:22:48","slug":"nasa-hack-squeezes-more-time-out-of-dying-voyager-2-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nasa-hack-squeezes-more-time-out-of-dying-voyager-2-probe","title":{"rendered":"NASA Hack Squeezes More Time Out of Dying Voyager 2 Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-hack-squeezes-more-time-out-of-dying-voyager-2-probe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/voyager-space-probes-power-down-mission-nasa\" class=\"\">reports of its death<\/a> were greatly exaggerated. NASA says it\u2019s figured out a way to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s no easy feat, considering the probe has been screaming through the cosmos since 1977 and is currently more than 12 billion miles from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The probe recently switched to its backup power reserves, which were originally set aside as part of an onboard safety mechanism, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/nasas-voyager-will-do-more-science-with-new-power-strategy\" class=\"\">update<\/a> by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that reports of its death were greatly exaggerated. NASA says it\u2019s figured out a way to extend the mission of its interstellar Voyager 2 probe by another three years. And that\u2019s no easy feat, considering the probe has been screaming through the cosmos since 1977 and is currently more than 12 billion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}