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Interstellar Probes - Part 4: The probes reach the edge of the Solar System
The farther the probes traveled, the more their triumphs intertwined with vulnerability. Systems designed in the 1960s and 1970s were never meant to be immortal. Thermoelectric generators decayed, their wattage slowly diminishing. Heaters were turned off, instruments were retired, and engineers played a decades-long game of prioritization.
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