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Wall of fire found by Voyager at solar system boundary
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
After nearly five decades of exploration, NASA's legendary Voyager spacecraft have revealed a dramatic and previously elusive frontier at the edge of our Solar System, a turbulent, superheated region of plasma where the protective bubble around our Sun collides with the harsh environment of inte...
Dwingeloo telescope captures signals from Voyager 1
Wednesday, December 25, 2024 by Richard Harris
The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, a historic facility in the Netherlands, has successfully detected faint signals from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft. This achievement underscores the vital role amateur astronomers and specialized equipment can play in supporting space missions during unexpected tec...
Voyager 2 Plasma Science Instrument turned off by NASA
Thursday, October 3, 2024 by Richard Harris
Mission engineers at NASA have turned off the plasma science instrument aboard the Voyager 2 spacecraft due to the probe’s gradually shrinking electrical power supply. Traveling more than 12.8 billion miles (20.5 billion kilometers) from Earth, the spacecraft continues to use four science i...
Voyager 1 resumes sending science data from all four instruments
Sunday, June 16, 2024 by Richard Harris
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is once again conducting normal science operations after addressing a technical issue from November 2023. The team partially resolved the problem in April by initiating the return of engineering data, including health and status updates of the spacecraft. On May 19, t...