NASA’s Voyager Shuts Down Plasma Sensor After 47 Years of Discovery
After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.
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A new interstellar tunnel found in our solar system’s hot bubble
Our Solar System is located within a low-density region known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). This bubble is filled with a ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’ from 15.4 billion miles into space
The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...
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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
Luckily, the Deep Space ... the heliosphere—a sort of bubble surrounding the solar system filled with the solar magnetic field and solar wind—making it the first spacecraft to enter ...
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Voyager’s resilience: When old tech outlasts modern expectations
The Voyager duo are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars ... spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles ...
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
operating beyond the heliosphere — the sun’s bubble of magnetic fields and particles that extends well beyond Pluto’s orbit — where its instruments directly sample interstellar space.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life with 1981 Technology, Reaches Earth from 15 Billion Miles Away
NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1, currently over 15 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space, reestablished contact after ...
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Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
These twin probes later became the first spacecraft to operate in interstellar space — space outside the heliosphere, the bubble of solar wind and magnetic fields emanating from the Sun. Voyager 1 was ...
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Where Are NASA's Voyagers Now and What Happens to Them Next?
Now, they're heading to the outer reaches of the solar system, into the darkness of interstellar space. Just how far ... their cameras—which captured iconic images like "the Pale Blue Dot ...