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Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination

Posted by samzenpus on from the throw-that-old-thing-out dept.

marcel-jan.nl writes "There are plans to terminate the interstellar missions Voyager 1 and 2 and the solar mission Ulysses in October to save money. The Voyagers alone need $4.2 million a year for daily operation and data analysis. Scientist say this cut is "an extremely foolish thing to do": the Voyagers are approaching the edge of the Solar System and Ulysses is observing the Sun coming to the end of a 22-year magnetic cycle."

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  1. Re:How come by AnonymousJackass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry, man. Didn't mean to dishearten you! You might wanna check out monster.com.... ;)

  2. Re:Poor management. by Tongo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So is the rest of the world.

  3. Re:Can't Stop by Minwee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And I heard that the Russkies are ten years ahead of us on cute bald women.

    I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them from taking over more cute bald women, knocking us out in superior numbers when Voyager returns. Mr. President, we must not allow... a cute bald women gap!

  4. Re:Budget Cutbacks by big-giant-head · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When Slashdot includes a spell check I will use it, until then, get over the typos...............

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    So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.