24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
...of the day, completed around 3.30 p.m PDT (22.30 GMT) the spacecraft had finished one orbit in solar sailing mode, and all of...heliosphere, by nothing more than momentum; NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Their historic journey has so far taken 40 years ...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
...website, a curious Earth-bound human can track the two Voyager spacecraft, launched 40 years ago, as the probes hurtle from ...concedes, “we have no clue.” Each of the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 carries a 12-inch gold-plated phonograph ...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
The renowned Voyager spacecraft have been on an unmatched mission that has... feasible all-round solution is the Plasma Clipper. Artist concept of what a spacecraft using Plasma Magnet propulsion might look like. Plasma Clipper With the combination of ...
04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
...it isn’t and if the interstellar plasma is magnetically dominated, the resulting heliopause should instead be spherical. Both Voyager spacecraft crossed the heliopause near the nose region (that is, in the approximate direction of interstellar inflow...
February 2016
Space for art
... the stage for such ambitious orbiter missions as Galileo to Jupiter and Cassini to Saturn. Today both Voyager spacecraft continue to return valuable science from the far reaches of our solar system NASA’s Mars exploration programme ...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... mission, called Interstellar Probe, has been studied for years and is of high interest to space science. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, is now about 137 AU from Earth, taking nearly 40 years to get to this point. The interstellar...
