Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst
More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries.
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NASA contacts Voyager 2 using upgraded Deep Space Network dish
On Oct. 29, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March. The spacecraft has been flying solo while the 70-meter-wide (230-foot-wide) radio antenna used to ...
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Nov 4, 2020
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New evidence our neighborhood in space is stuffed with hydrogen
Only the two Voyager spacecraft have ever been there, and it took than more than 30 years of supersonic travel. It lies well past the orbit of Pluto, through the rocky Kuiper belt, and on for four times that distance. This ...
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Oct 31, 2020
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Uncovering our solar system's shape
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions.
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Aug 5, 2020
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Alternating flows and a high-latitude eastward jet explain Saturn's polar hexagon, researchers report
A pair of researchers at Harvard University has developed a computer simulation that may explain Saturn's mysterious polar hexagon. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rakesh Yadav ...
NASA's newest test pilots are veteran astronauts, friends
The two astronauts who will test drive SpaceX's brand new rocketship are classmates and friends, veteran spacefliers married to veteran spacefliers, and fathers of young sons.
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May 22, 2020
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Voyager 2 unable to receive commands during NASA's 70-meter-wide radio antenna upgrades
Starting in early March, NASA's Voyager 2 will quietly coast through interstellar space without receiving commands from Earth. That's because the Voyager's primary means of communication, the Deep Space Network's 70-meter-wide ...
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Mar 5, 2020
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Image: 'Pale Blue Dot' revisited
For the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic views from the Voyager mission, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is publishing a new version of the image known as the "Pale Blue Dot."
Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2020
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Voyager 2 engineers working to restore normal operations
Engineers for NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft are working to return the mission to normal operating conditions after one of the spacecraft's autonomous fault protection routines was triggered. Multiple fault protection routines ...
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Jan 29, 2020
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Solar Wind Around Pluto instrument confirms solar wind slows farther away from the sun
Measurements taken by the Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are providing important new insights from some of the farthest reaches of space ever explored. In a paper recently ...
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Dec 2, 2019
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