Inside NASA’s ‘Big Bang’: A Daring Plan to Keep the Distant Voyagers Alive The New York TimesVoyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a Space DailyNASA Just Found a Clever Way To Keep Voyager 2 Alive in Deep Space SciTechDailyNASA Squeezes Another Year of Science Out of Voyager 2 Aerospace Global NewsNASA Orders 'Power Diet' for Voyager 2, Extending Observation Life by One Year finance.biggo.com