News tagged with voyager
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Voyager makes an interstellar discovery
The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 26, 2009 |
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No more solar wind for Voyager 1 spacecraft
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Voyager 2 at 12,000 Days: The Super-Marathon Continues
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's plucky Voyager 2 spacecraft has hit a long-haul operations milestone today -- operating continuously for 12,000 days.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Voyager 1 hits new region at solar system edge
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our solar system and interstellar space. Data obtained from Voyager over the last year reveal this new region to be a kind of cosmic ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 05, 2011 |
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A big surprise from the edge of the solar system: magnetic bubbles (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager probes are truly going where no one has gone before. Gliding silently toward the stars, 9 billion miles from Earth, they are beaming back news from the most distant, unexplored ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 09, 2011 |
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Is calling E.T. a smart move?
In 2008, NASA beamed the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into deep space, sending a message of peace to any extraterrestrial who happens to be in the region of Polaris, also called the North Star, in 2439.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2010 |
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How to Respond When E.T. Says Hello
Scientists are studying the best ways to compose messages meant for alien eyes in case we ever do get the chance to communicate with extraterrestrials.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 01, 2010 |
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Engineers Diagnosing Voyager 2 Data System (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- One flip of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer appears to have caused the change in the science data pattern returning from Voyager 2, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2010 |
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Voyager set to enter interstellar space
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA's twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system. Not only that, they're still working. And with each passing day they are beaming ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2011 |
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The Stars My Destination
The Voyager spacecraft are now in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, traveling toward interstellar space - the first man-made spacecraft to travel such a vast distance from Earth.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
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Fantastic Voyage
By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Voyager 2 to switch to backup thruster set
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the Voyager 2 spacecraft Nov. 4 to switch to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Confirmation was received ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Voyager instrument cooling after heater turned off
(PhysOrg.com) -- In order to reduce power consumption, mission managers have turned off a heater on part of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, dropping the temperature of its ultraviolet spectrometer instrument ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System
(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Voyager 2 completes switch to backup thruster set
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the spacecraft to make the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 15, 2011 |
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