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The Voyager 2 spacecraft is powered by radioisotope thermoclectricgenerators. A decrease in output by this power source, not solarbatteries (This Week in Science, 4 July, p. 7), may at somefuture time bring an end to the effective operation of the Voyager2 spacecraft.