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  1. Pioneer 10

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    Pioneer 10 continued to transmit data until January 2003, when the final confirmed signal was received by the Deep Space Network (DSN). By this time, the probe was approximately $12$ billion kilometers from Earth. The RTGs had long since decayed to less than $10\%$ of their original output, and the power budget was so constrained that only the transmitter …