... 2012 at a distance of 121.6 au (18.3 × 109 km). Voyager 2’s encounter with the boundary has long been anticipated by eager scientists...magnetic) field and the interstellar field. Unlike Voyager 1 however, Voyager 2 did not come across this phenomena,...
... 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...
... 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 ...
... 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...
...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 ...
... 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...