What is powering the Voyager 1? It has been travelling in the space for almost 50 years.
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Nuclear power. It has radioactive material in it. Highly concentrated plutonium will put out heat while it decays, which happens over thousands of years. It’s only a small amount of heat but that heat gets converted into electricity, which powers voyager. It is designed to run on a very small amount of electricity since it’s basically just drifting through space (which requires zero energy) and transmits a radio signal on a loop.
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