NASA’s Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our ‘Solar Bubble’, NASA JPL “Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.” Related (Previous): – Voyager 1 Has Left Our Solar System – Has Voyager 1 Left The Solar System?
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Voyager 1 Performs 70 Degree Roll Maneuver 17 Billion Kilometers From Earth “To enable Voyager 1’s Low Energy Charged Particle instrument to gather these data, the spacecraft performed a maneuver on March 7 that it hadn’t done for 21 years, except in a preparatory test last month. Voyager engineers performed a test roll and hold on Feb. 2 for two hours, 15 minutes. When data from Voyager 1 were received […]