VOYAGER 2 POWER GENERATION

The Eternal Power of Voyager 2: How a Nuclear Battery Phones Home from 20 Billion Kilometers Away By Rahul.U  Published: September 22, 2025 Superer source:       Floating in the silent, star-dusted void of interstellar space , more than 20 billion kilometers from home, a relic of the 1970s continues its lonely journey. Voyager 2 , launched in 1977, is still sending back precious data from beyond our solar system . What is Voyager 2? ... NASA 's Voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space. On Dec. 10, 2018, the spacecraft joined its twin – Voyager 1 – as the only human-made objects to enter the space between the stars. No Sunlight, No Problem : For any mission venturing past Jupiter , solar panels become increasingly impractical. The sunlight is simply too faint to generate meaningful power. To give its Voyager probes the longevity needed to explore the outer planets and beyond, NASA turned to a different kind of power source: nuclear . ! ( ht...