Subject: Re: Voyager probes in funding crisis
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 12/03/2005, 18:20
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti,sci.astro.seti

Max Power wrote:
Voyager probes in funding crisis
[...]

Although the Voyager probes are thought to have another 15 years of life left in them, they are very expensive to run, costing Nasa about $4.2m a year for operations and data analysis.
[...]

Why so very expensive?

Are the data rates so very slow that they need a lot of DSN time??

Regards,
Martin

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