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Voyager 2 enters interstellar space
November 14 , 2019
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- NASA’s Voyager 2 has become the second human made object in history to exit the Heliosphere (bubble created by solar winds).
- Spacecraft Voyager 1, crossed this boundary in 2012.
- The Voyager spacecraft are the third and fourth spacecraft to fly beyond all the planets in our solar system.
- Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited all four gas giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- The two probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have left the heliosphere, but have not yet left the solar system as they are not out of the sun’s gravitational field yet.
About the Mission
- Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977.
- The spacecraft were built to last five years and conduct close-up studies of Jupiter and Saturn.
- Voyager 2 is NASA’s longest-running mission.
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