re keeping spacecraft on after funding cuts in article r aqr dnv access digex net prb access pat writes voyager has the unusual luck to be on a stable trajectory out of the solar system all it s doing is collecting fields data and routinely squirting it down one of the mariners is also in stable solar orbit and still providing similiar solar data there are no mariner craft from which we are still receiving data i believe you are referring to one or more of pioneers through launched from december through november which were put into solar orbits to study interplanetary space i recall reading that at least one of them was still functioning years after launch chris jones clj ksr com
