News Archive / Tagged: interstellar space

• Voyager 2 will be on its own while DSN antenna is upgraded

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 23rd, 2020

  The only radio telescope capable of communicating with NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft will undergo nearly 11 months of upgrades to its 230-foot- (70-meter-) wide antenna, during which it will be unable to transmit commands to the 42-year-old spacecraft, which is now traveling in interstellar space.

• Voyager team working to keep 42-year-old probes operational

  Laurel KornfeldJuly 9th, 2019

  To keep NASA’s Voyager probes, launched 42 years ago to study the solar system’s gas giant planets, operational in interstellar space for as long as possible, mission scientists are making tough decisions to propel the spacecraft even further.

• Cosmic ray detection could mean Voyager 2 is close to interstellar space

  Laurel KornfeldOctober 6th, 2018

  Now almost 11 billion miles (17.7 billion km) from Earth, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an increasing amount of cosmic rays that originate beyond our solar system, leading some scientists to believe the probe is on the verge of entering interstellar space.