24 July 2019
LightSail 2 unfurls its sails and soars through space
...of the day, completed around 3.30 p.m PDT (22.30 GMT) the spacecraft had finished one orbit in solar sailing mode, and all of...heliosphere, by nothing more than momentum; NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. Their historic journey has so far taken 40 years ...
June 2018
Cosmic communications and the anthropology of outer space
...website, a curious Earth-bound human can track the two Voyager spacecraft, launched 40 years ago, as the probes hurtle from ...concedes, “we have no clue.” Each of the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 carries a 12-inch gold-plated phonograph ...
April 2020
Plasma Clipper - opening the age of sail, in space travel
The renowned Voyager spacecraft have been on an unmatched mission that has... feasible all-round solution is the Plasma Clipper. Artist concept of what a spacecraft using Plasma Magnet propulsion might look like. Plasma Clipper With the combination of ...
04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
...it isn’t and if the interstellar plasma is magnetically dominated, the resulting heliopause should instead be spherical. Both Voyager spacecraft crossed the heliopause near the nose region (that is, in the approximate direction of interstellar inflow...
16 January 2022
Voyager: photographs from humanity’s greatest journe
...and-a-half decades since the two Voyager spacecraft were launched to the outer solar... space exploration. Hair-splitting apart, this is a great celebration of the Voyager imagery and, by implication, the technology that made it all possible. The...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... the outer reaches of the heliosphere with the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft until they passed through the heliopause and into the...the ISM of the Milky Way Galaxy. What the Voyager spacecraft measured were galactic processes that must be taking place ...
