04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
... 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,...
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...
22 October 2021
Nanoracks announces plans to launch its orbital space station, Starlab, in 2027
... and built by Lockheed Martin who will also operate the system under Nanoracks’ leadership after launch. Voyager Space, the majority stakeholder in Nanoracks, will oversee financing and capital investment. “We have invested significantly in habitat...
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 ...
