CSPD orders shelter in place around N. Academy and Voyager
The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) has issued a shelter-in-place alert on Thursday, Nov. 11, around 5 p.m., for ...
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We've been wrong about Uranus for nearly 40 years, new analysis of Voyager 2 data reveals
Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...
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NASA Engineers Activate Thrusters On Voyager 1 Spacecraft, Extending Its Mission Further Beyond Our Solar System
When it comes to exploring space, few things have done it better or longer than the Voyager 1 spacecraft, and it isn’t done ...
NASA’s 38-Year-Old Voyager 2 Data Finally Solves Uranus’s Perplexing Mysteries
NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...
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Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
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Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus. Its findings may have misled us for 40 years.
The probe, along with its Voyager 1 twin, launched in 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida to explore the far reaches of our ...
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Voyager 1 Reconnects Using Dormant Radio Frequency After Decades
Voyager 1, NASA's furthest-traveling spacecraft, re-established contact after a brief communication gap by switching to a ...
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Voyager 1 is forced to rely on its low power radio
Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement that ...
$1.80 dinners and budget clothes? The spread of frugality is hurting China's economy (copy)
China’s 1.4 billion consumers once spent with enough abandon to help drive the global economy. Now, one of the hottest topics ...
NASA’s Voyager Shuts Down Plasma Sensor After 47 Years of Discovery
After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off.
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Voyager 1 shocks NASA by communicating with a radio system not used since 1981
Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...
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Voyager-1’s cosmic comeback! NASA receives faint signal, thanks to 1981’s backup transmitter
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 was mankind’s first spacecraft to enter the interstellar medium, in 2012, and is currently more than 15 billion miles from Earth. Messages sent from Earth take about ...