Power supplies

1980 – a pivotal point in the power industry!

October 29, 2020, after seven months of silence due to a major upgrade of the 70-meter-wide radio antenna located in Camberra, NASA sent a set of commands to the 43 year-old spacecraft, Voyager 2 that has travelled billions of miles from earth since its launch in 1977. Voyager 2 acknowledged it had received the call and executed the commands without any issue. Interesting for sure – but what is the significance of this to power engineers?

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