News tagged with voyager
Related topics: nasa , solar system
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 |
4.8 / 5 (37) |
118
|
Recalculating the distance to interstellar space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing recent data from NASA's Voyager and Cassini spacecraft have calculated that Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2011 |
4.9 / 5 (11) |
13
|
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 |
4.9 / 5 (35) |
25
|
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 |
4.5 / 5 (26) |
18
|
Voyager seeks the answer blowin' in the wind
(PhysOrg.com) -- In which direction is the sun's stream of charged particles banking when it nears the edge of the solar system? The answer, scientists know, is blowing in the wind. It's just a matter of getting ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2011 |
4.9 / 5 (9) |
11
|
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 |
4.9 / 5 (48) |
33
|
Researchers offer explanation for the differences between Ganymede and Callisto moons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 24, 2010 |
5 / 5 (5) |
2
|
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 |
4.8 / 5 (17) |
1
Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface
Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2012 |
4.8 / 5 (5) |
1
|
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 |
4.7 / 5 (18) |
22
|
As Voyager 1 nears edge of solar system, scientists look back
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time, and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2011 |
5 / 5 (11) |
1
|
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 |
4.6 / 5 (15) |
2
|
Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind, and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy. We can and will send more autonomous ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 07, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
9
|
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 |
5 / 5 (18) |
42
|
Debris may be on collision course with space lab: NASA
NASA is tracking a piece of Soviet space debris that could collide with the International Space Station, the US space agency said Sunday after the shuttle Atlantis docked on its final mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 11, 2011 |
3.7 / 5 (3) |
5
