It's already the longest-living human-made spacecraft in history.
NASA's interstellar Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched back in 1977, and it is now more than 12 billion miles from Earth.
Despite its number designation, it is NASA's oldest operational spacecraft, having lifted off from the space agency's Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 41 two weeks before Voyager 1. Voyager 2 features five science instruments that have allowed it to send a wealth of valuable data back to Earth during the decades since its launch.
Now, NASA has announced that it will use a small amount of backup power to help keep all of Voyager 2's science instruments alive until 2026 instead of letting one die this year.The Voyager probes are the only human-made spacecraft to have reached interstellar space.
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