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>>belter+(OP)
Hope the re-calibration works. Would be a sad way to lose contact after all these years.

>>padjo+P3
True, but they only had enough power on-board for it to last until 2025 anyway, so it's already on its last legs.

>>midori+kc
The power needs are mainly for radio communications back home?

Or that includes navigation / propulsion / course corrections / reorientation also?

(There is not enough "solar power" that can be harvested at that distance I presume)

If we spread out the communications to be less frequent and say bring it down to essentially a heartbeat signal once a month ..would it prolong the service life. Mostly for emotional reasons at that point :)