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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Voyager heads for interstellar space

25 Aug 2009

Despite completing its grand tour of the solar system 20 years ago, NASA’s Voyager mission is still set to provide new insights about interstellar space, as Richard Corfield explains

Voyager 2 – still going strong
Two decades ago today — 25 August 1989 — an extraordinary spacecraft took its final, stu

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