VOYAGER
The two Voyager spacecraft carry identical plasma wave receivers built and operated by The University of Iowa. The instruments made the first surveys of plasma wave and low-frequency radio wave phenomena at the outer planets, in the outer heliosphere, and now in interstellar space. Data from these instruments are generally available through the Outer Planets Subnode of the Planetary Plasma Interactions Node of NASA's Planetary Data System or by contacting the PI, Bill Kurth (e-mail william-kurth@uiowa.edu).
Voyagers in Interstellar Space
In Situ Observations of Interstellar Plasma With Voyager 1 by D. A. Gurnett, W. S. Kurth, L. F. Burlaga, and N. F. Ness, Science, 341, pp. 1489-1492, doi:10.1126/science.1241681, 2013
Listen to the sounds of interstellar space captured by the U. of Iowa Voyager 1 instrument traveling beyond the heliosphere.
NASA Press Release, Voyager 1 Reaches Interstellar Space, Sept. 12, 2013, Historical Documents of 2013 (pages 423-429), ed. by H. Kerrigan, SQ Press/Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. (6MB PDF file)
NASA News Conference: Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space, Sept. 12, 2013.
Voyager 1 spacecraft reaches interstellar space, Sept. 12, 2013, U. of Iowa news release
A short history of Voyager's historic journey, Sept. 12, 2013, U. of Iowa news article, including video interviews
New York Times front page, Sept. 13, 2013
Public lecture: Voyager's Epic Journey into Interstellar Space, Sept. 16, 2013, Lecture Room 1 Van Allen Hall ( Watch the lecture on YouTube, courtesy of Hawkeye Network TV)
Voyager Plasma Wave Topics
- A Plasma Wave Investigation for the Voyager Mission
- Investigators and support staff (past and present)
- Publications - Links
- Presentations
- Outreach Activities
- Planetary Encounters
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Access to Data
- Recent Observations
- Cassini, Galileo, and Voyager ephemeris tool
- Instrument and spacecraft images
- Local Operations Notes
More Voyager Information
- Voyager Project Home Page at JPL
- Voyager Project Information from Planetary Sciences at the NSSDC
- The MIT Voyager Plasma Science Home Page
- The JHU/APL Low-Energy Charged Particle Science Home Page
- The Magnetometer Experiment Home Page
- Planetary Data System (PDS/PPI) Outer Planets Subnode
- Heliocentric Trajectories for Selected Spacecraft, Planets, Comets