How is Voyager's vintage technology still flying?

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Vintage tech has extended the crafts’ lifespan—but it’s unclear how much juice they’ve got left.

In 1989, Chuck Berry and Carl Sagan partied it up at one of the biggest bashes of the summer—a celebration honoringThe twin probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched back in 1977, with only a five-year mission to take a gander at Jupiter and Saturn’s rings and moons, haulingObviously, the Voyager spacecrafts have persisted a

lot longer than five years: 46 years, to be exact. They’re still careening through space at a distance between 12 and 14 billion miles from Earth. So how have they lasted four decades longer than expected? Much of it has to do with a bit of vintage hardware and a handful of software updates. You can find out more by subscribing to

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