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...
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...
29 March 2018
NASA Voyager 1&2 Owners’ Workshop Manual
... it was unlikely that [an] alien culture would chance upon either Voyager, but what the record said about us was more important”. ... This is without doubt one of the best books on the Voyager missions. It’s a great pity that one of the three authors...
10 October 2018
The Ringed Planet: Cassini’s voyage of discovery at Saturn
In a competition for ‘most iconic planet’, some might choose Mars because it has inspired so much high-profile science fiction, while others might choose Jupiter for its iconic Great Red Spot. But if we consider ‘iconic’ in terms of graphic ...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
...and computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, do just that. Rather than sending out a message, as Voyager Records do, scientists at the UC Berkeley are listening in. Both are examples of how humans install their own cultural...
