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Astro Poetry: The First Starship
Our favorite astro-poet, Stuart Atkinson, has written a wonderful ode to Voyager 1 in commemoration of the spacecraft reaching interstellar…
Messages To Voyager: Welcome to Interstellar Space
On the Voyager spacecraft are the famous Voyager Golden Records, which send messages from planet Earth to ... whatever or…
Fly Along With Voyager
Far away, deep in the dark, near the edge of interstellar space, Voyager 1 and 2 are hurtling near the…
Scientists Say Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System, But Has It Really?
A new paper out today reports that the Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have traveled beyond the influence of the…
Voyager 1 May Have Left the Solar System
Number of particles from the Sun hitting Voyager 1. Credit: NASA While there's no official word from NASA on this,…
Voyager Mission Is Cooling Its Jets
[/caption] Or, more appropriately, Voyager 1 is cooling its instruments. To help conserve power, the mission managers at NASA have…
New Movie Revives Old Voyager Data of Jupiter’s Clouds
I remember, some time after Voyager 1 flew past Jupiter, of seeing a television show that played a movie of…
Voyager Spacecraft Will Soon Enter Interstellar Space
After 33 years, NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft are still actively working – gathering information, communicating with Earth, (and Tweeting!), and…
Aged Voyager 1 Does In-flight Gymnastics for Science
[/caption] She might be old, but she’s still got it where it counts. The 33-year old Voyager 1 probe, flying…
Orbital looking to build a mini Space Shuttle?
Fret not Space Shuttle fans... If Orbital Sciences gets their way, a new mini space shuttle may be coming your…