Friday, September 13, 2013

NASA: Voyager 1 makes history and goes to where no device ... - Techworld

Agency announced this week that the spacecraft entered the interstellar space. Spacecraft was launched into space in 1977.

The Voyager 1 spacecraft, NASA, left the solar system, the first human-made object to enter interstellar space.

Unravelling the recent debates about the location of the probe launched about 36 years, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday, 12/9, the Voyager 1 traveled 19.3 billion kilometers the sun and in the last year has flown by plasma found among the stars.

“Now that we have new data needed, we believe this is the step of mankind into interstellar space,” said project scientist Ed Stone. “The Voyager team needed time to analyze these comments and have made sense. But now we can answer the wonder we were all doing – ‘Are we there?’ Yes, we are. “

The associate administrator for science at NASA, John Grunsfeld, said on Thursday that this historic journey is the result of 40 years of hard work of the people who initially predicted the Voyager to the people who built and now People who analyze the data that the probe sends direct space.

“Voyager, asism as older browsers, is entering new territory,” said Grunsfeld. “Someday humans will leave the cocoon of our solar system to explore what lies beyond. The Voyager has led the way. This is a story of science, exploration, and a narrative of more than 40 years of hard work … This is almost the entire history of the space age. “

The Voyager project manager, Suzanne Dodd, note that the probe was able to make this historic journey using technology 36 years ago. She also stressed that its current smartphone has 240,000 times more memory than the probe.

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 along with its twin Voyager 2 probe. The two passed by Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranium. In 1990, they embarked on a mission to get into the interstellar region.

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