Pasadena, CA – Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have successfully freed up power on Voyager 2, extending how long the spacecraft can continue to do science. Due to the plutonium supply continually depleting, both probes lose about 4 watts of power each year. Without the Big Bang activity, the mission would have had to turn off another instrument on Voyager 2 before the end of 2026. The mission team plans to perform the same swap on Voyager 1, which is farther from Earth than Voyager 2, and to complete the effort in the coming months. For more information about NASA’s Voyager mission, visit: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager