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NASA Gives Up On Pioneer 10

Posted by michael on from the klingon-target-practice dept.

Soft writes "Another Energizer Bunny has finally given out: Pioneer 10's generators have decayed to the point that DSN can no longer detect the probe's signals. It was the first spacecraft to penetrate the asteroid belt (1972) and fly by Jupiter (1973). So long and thanks for all the pic's..."

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  1. Never again, anything like it. by ayeco · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Most of us will never again see anything like this. Neither the last communication of a space probe like this nor another space probe at the edge of our solarsystem. Will we make more? Probably. Will we see the edge of the solarsystem again? 30 years is a long time, most of us will be dead in 30 years.