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NASA shut off Voyager 1's Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on April 17, 2026. Only two instruments now remain active on humanity's most distant spacecraft.
Voyager 1 has been flying through interstellar space for nearly 50 years powered by just 69 KB of memory and a physical tape recorder — less computing power than a digital watch.