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Pioneer 10 fades but still tweets from the edge of space
After 25 years in space Pioneer 10 remains in weak contact with Earth. NASA scientists halted data requests as signals fade and expect loss of detectable transmission next year. The craft, launched in 1972 to study Jupiter, has travelled beyond Pluto into the Kuiper Belt, powered by a nuclear heater and set to drift past another star in 30,000 years.
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Paul Recer
Washington
John D. Anderson
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Anderson
Pioneer 10
Earth
NASA
Jupiter
Solar System
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto
Alexander Wolszczan
Pennsylvania State University