NASA shutting down Pioneer 11 operations as signal fades
NASA controllers have stopped communicating with the 22-year-old Pioneer 11 planetary probe as its signal fades, bringing an end to a scientific program that turned up important data about Jupiter and Saturn. Controllers who had been using the Deep Space Network to tune in to the spacecraft eight to...
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