11 December 2018
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
... PLS instrument and a principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. The PLS instrument aboard Voyager 1 stopped working in 1980 long before that probe crossed the heliopause, but was believed to have crossed...
01 November 2017
Voyager 1 spies unexpected light at the outer edges of the Solar System
... of positive ions and free electrons) from the interstellar plasma. Voyager 2 is approaching the heliosphere, but has yet to cross into ...1710.07038.pdf Image showing the locations of Voyagers 1 and 2. Voyager 1 has crossed into the heliosheath, the ...
04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... located. For the past three years, engineers have noticed that the "attitude control thrusters" onboard Voyager 1 – a thruster that controls the orientation of an object with respect to an inertial frame of reference – have been degrading. These...
19 December 2018
Saturn's iconic rings are dying fast say scientists
...for too long. Using data collected by the two Voyager probes decades ago, two researchers have found that Saturn’s... new one. Three dark narrow bands encircling the planet were spotted by Voyager 2 as it studied the gas giant in 1981. The bands were ...
04 October 2017
First ever Stratollite launch from Spaceport Tucson
... Stratollite to commercial purposes but is also in the market to offer human spaceflight. Currently under development, its Voyager human spaceflight experience is aiming to launch in the near future and once operational it will offer private citizens...
24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
... pioneering spacecraft currently speeding their way beyond the heliosphere, by nothing more than momentum; NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Their historic journey has so far taken 40 years - a trip that could have taken half the...
