March 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...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... (Jupiter, Io and Ganymede) and September 1996 (Europa). The portrait of Callisto is from the 1979 flyby of NASA’s Voyager spacecraft. Inspiration Does Europe also want independent access to space for future space exploration, not only in LEO...
17 September 2018
Newly discovered vortex on Saturn could be part of a huge towering structure
... spanning a vertical range of several hundred kilometres.” Saturn's original visually striking hexagon was discovered by NASA's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s. Its sides stretch for a staggering 14,500 kilometres (9,000 miles) – that’s over two...
April 2020
Lunar artefact – a time capsule for the future
... statements for the artists themselves. Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, sent into interstellar space aboard the Voyager spacecraft, set a course as a more didactic synthesis of the human experience, and was thereby more pluralistic in its aims...
