Voyager

NASA IBEX to see edge of Solar System
By: William Atkins

The NASA Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is scheduled to liftoff on October 19, 2008, for its two-year mission to image the boundary of our solar system with interstellar space.


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August 20: First space pets come home and Voyager 2 launched
By: William Atkins

Did you know? … That on August 20, 1960, the U.S.S.R. returned—for the first time—two live dogs from space and that, on August 20, 1977, the U.S. launched the NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is  still providing important data over thirty years later while racing toward the edge of the solar system.


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NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft finds lopsided shape of solar system
By: William Atkins

Voyager 2 is flying near the edge of the solar system. It has sent back important data to NASA showing that the heliosphere (the volume of highly charged particles blown out in all directions from the Sun) is lopsided.



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