Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
Voyager Enters Final Frontier Of Solar System |
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Nov 3 2008, 07:42 PM
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Thanks guys. So it seems like both Voyagers will still have most of the fields and particles instruments active for the next decade or so.
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Nov 4 2008, 06:24 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
Yes.
More precisely, with the exception of the Voyager 1 Plasma Science instrument (which is turned off to accommodate UVS observations), all instruments are working well and are capable of continuing operations at least until 2020. However, due to termination of gyro operations about 7 years from now, it will be impossible to calibrate the magnetometer instrument and, more important, spacecrafts could loose orientation anticipating communications blackout with Earth... so, let's cross our fingers! -------------------- I always think before posting! - Marco -
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Sep 30 2009, 09:23 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 27-June 08 Member No.: 4241 |
Voyager Reports March 3, 2006 to March 24, 2006 Available http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/weekly-reports/index.htm I had a look at this page today and it seems the last report was made on the 31st of July? Is there a problem with the probes? |
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Sep 30 2009, 09:57 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
They always update these pages in batches with some time delay. No worries.
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Dec 13 2010, 11:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458 |
Voyager 1 Sees Solar Wind Decline; Edges Closer to Interstellar Space (2010-12-13)
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=36121 -------------------- |
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Dec 14 2010, 03:29 AM
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From the 12/14 Space Daily article (wait - that's tomorrow! hehe)
QUOTE Scientists suspect the solar wind has been turned sideways by the pressure from the interstellar wind in the region between stars. Questions for more studied UMSFers: The space daily article has an image that implies our sun's heliosheath has a huge tail. Is that tail due to the sun's motion around the galactic center? Is Voyager 1 at the 'front' edge? Is Voyager 2 heading down the tail side? |
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Dec 14 2010, 04:28 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 555 Joined: 27-September 10 Member No.: 5458 |
I think this article could help:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/...91016142056.htm Also: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/...91016101807.htm -------------------- |
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Dec 14 2010, 12:14 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 23-June 09 From: Leyland U.K. Member No.: 4834 |
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Apr 14 2011, 12:13 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 59 Joined: 25-December 05 From: Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA Member No.: 619 |
Nice article about Edward Stone in today's LA Times:
"Voyager 1 on the edge, and so is he" http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-04...0,4527527.story |
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Apr 14 2011, 04:43 PM
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Thanks Rogelio - nice article
Ed has quite some CV over the last four decades!! I sincerely hope he's around to see V1 coast into interstellar space proper. Jase |
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Jun 10 2011, 02:11 AM
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Jun 16 2011, 08:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
Some good news from outer space :
"Voyager 1 could cross over into the frontier of interstellar space at any time and much earlier than previously thought" http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/recalculating_space.html Links to the journal Nature : http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110615/ful...s.2011.370.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/...nature10115.pdf Best regards, Marc. |
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Jul 26 2011, 04:52 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 95 Joined: 5-September 07 Member No.: 3662 |
Hi all,
I'm working on an article on the Voyagers, and have noticed that the last weekly status updates on the Voyager website were published in April. Does anybody know if they're normally sent up in batches? Thanks Jeff |
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Jul 26 2011, 07:21 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
Yes, last time I checked, they get put on the website in large batches.
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Dec 2 2011, 06:07 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
today on Science express: Voyager Measurements of Hydrogen Lyman-α Diffuse Emission from the Milky Way
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