NASA’s Voyager 2 Enters Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 2 has exited heliosphere and has become the second object to enter interstellar space. It is now at 12 billion miles from the earth. The spacecraft joined its twin Voyager 1 on December 10, 2018. However, it took a year to analyze the data and confirm the findings.
Voyager Mission
- The mission objective of the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is to extend the NASA exploration of the solar system beyond the neighborhood of the outer planets to the outer limits of the Sun’s sphere of influence, and possibly beyond.
- Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977, and ....
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