The spacecraft is being subjected to extreme temperature changes -- conditions it will face during launch and its journey ...

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) arrived at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, or the space between stars, in 2012, and Voyager 2 did the same in 2018. The probes took different trajectories. Voyager 1 is traveling up away from the ...

The famous interstellar probe, Voyager 2, was the only spacecraft to do so in 1989, revealing Neptune’s atmosphere, rings, and moons. Voyager 2 also revealed that the ice giant has auroras ...

Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space, or the space between stars, in 2012, and Voyager 2 did the same in 2018. The probes took different trajectories. Voyager 1 is traveling up away from the ...

DOI: 10.2514/1.G007671 Arna Bhardwaj et al, Information-Optimal Multi-Spacecraft Positioning for Interstellar Object Exploration, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.09110 ...