PERHAPS IT CAN BE MERGED WITH ANOTHER SPACE PROBE TO SAVE THEM BOTH: With Voyager 1 data mystery, NASA relies on slow, long-distance conversation. “Zurbuchen is confident that the Voyager team will solve the mystery, but noted that the spacecraft cannot continue forever. In addition to the current communications issue, Voyager 1 is also running at much colder temperatures than it was designed to because of the decay of the spacecraft’s nuclear power source.”