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As of 2024, there are five interstellar probes, all launched by the American space agency NASA: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11 and New Horizons. Also as of 2024, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the only probes to have actually reached interstellar space. [1] The other three are on interstellar trajectories.
Shensuo (Chinese: 神梭), formerly Interstellar Express, [6] is a proposed Chinese National Space Administration program designed to explore the heliosphere and interstellar space. [3] The program will feature two or three space probes that will purportedly be launched in 2024 and follow differing trajectories to encounter Jupiter to assist ...
Interstellar Probe ( ISP) is a proposed NASA space probe designed to explore and characterize the heliosphere and interstellar space. The study was originally proposed in 2018 by NASA for the Applied Physics Laboratory. It would have a baseline launch between 2036 and 2041. [ 1] The probe would launch on a direct hyperbolic trajectory to ...
May 1, 2024 at 1:49 PM. ... since the 1990s mysteriously turned up again this week, raising the question of how the Department of Defense lost the interstellar probe in the first place. ...
It is at a distance of 136.1 AU (20.4 billion km; 12.7 billion mi) from Earth as of June 2024. [5] The probe entered the interstellar medium on November 5, 2018, at a distance of 119.7 AU (11.1 billion mi; 17.9 billion km) from the Sun [6] and moving at a velocity of 15.341 km/s (34,320 mph) [7] relative to the Sun. Voyager 2 has left the Sun's ...
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA 's New Frontiers program. [5] Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), with a team led by Alan Stern, [6] the spacecraft was launched in 2006 with the primary mission to perform a flyby study ...
In this picture, Pete Worden giving a speech. Breakthrough Starshot is a research and engineering project by the Breakthrough Initiatives to develop a proof-of-concept fleet of light sail interstellar probes named Starchip, [ 1 ] to be capable of making the journey to the Alpha Centauri star system 4.34 light-years away.
Project Lyra. Project Lyra is a feasibility study of a mission to interstellar objects such as ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov, initiated on 30 October 2017 by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (i4is). [1][2][3][4] In January 2022, researchers proposed that a spacecraft launched from Earth could catch up to 'Oumuamua in 26 years for further ...