• formerly Interstellar Express, is a proposed Chinese National Space Administration program designed to explore the heliosphere and interstellar space. The...
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    the cavity formed by the Sun in the surrounding interstellar medium. The "bubble" of the heliosphere is continuously "inflated" by plasma originating...
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    An interstellar probe is a space probe that has left—or is expected to leave—the Solar System and enter interstellar space, which is typically defined...
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    Interstellar Probe (ISP) is a proposed NASA space probe designed to explore and characterize the heliosphere and interstellar space. The study was originally...
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    Voyager 1 (redirect from Voyager 1 probe)
    boundaries of the outer heliosphere and to begin exploring the interstellar medium. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space on August...
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    science topics in the heliosphere: the acceleration of energetic particles and interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium. These science...
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    part of the Very Local Interstellar Medium which begins where the heliosphere and interplanetary medium end, the furthest that probes have traveled. The Solar...
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    the 200-kg Interstellar Probe is designed to use a 200-m radius solar sail to achieve a velocity of 14 AU/year. After exiting the heliosphere within a decade...
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    Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage...
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    Sun (section Heliosphere)
    where the solar wind dominates over the interstellar medium. Turbulence and dynamic forces in the heliosphere cannot affect the shape of the solar corona...
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    Sun's heliosphere than previously thought. In July 2013, IBEX results revealed a 4-lobed tail on the Solar System's heliosphere. Interstellar Mapping...
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    Voyager 2 (category NASA space probes)
    outer planets and its extended mission is to study interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. Voyager 2 successfully fulfilled its primary mission...
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    development. Interstellar Express, targeting for launch around 2024–2025 for Interstellar Heliosphere Probe-1 (IHP-1) and around 2025–2026 for Interstellar Heliosphere...
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    Interplanetary Society to design a plausible uncrewed interstellar probe. Intended mainly as a scientific probe, the design criteria specified that the spacecraft...
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    (2023). "Future Exploration of the Outer Heliosphere and Very Local Interstellar Medium by Interstellar Probe". Space Science Reviews. 219 (2): 18. Bibcode:2023SSRv...
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    and astropause are called the heliosphere and heliopause, respectively. Approximately 70% of the mass of the interstellar medium consists of lone hydrogen...
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    the heliosphere and the objects that interact with it – most notably planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres, the solar corona, and the interstellar medium...
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    grains. Astrophysical maser Diffuse interstellar band Fossil stellar magnetic field Heliosphere List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules Photodissociation...
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  • used by email clients Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, a NASA spacecraft mission to study the boundary of the heliosphere This disambiguation...
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    discovered by NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission in 2009. The ribbon is a significant feature at the boundary of the heliosphere, the region...
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    Saturn in 1981, Uranus in 1986, and Neptune in 1989. The probe left the heliosphere for interstellar space at 119 AU on November 5, 2018. Voyager 2 is still...
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    distribution of energetic particles in the heliosphere. GAS studied the uncharged gases (helium) of interstellar origin. Low-Energy Ion and Electron Experiment...
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    then fly by Jupiter in March 2029, traveling towards the heliosphere. On its way to interstellar space, it will encounter 50000 Quaoar and its moon Weywot...
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    object from Earth, as well as the first object to leave the heliosphere and cross into interstellar space. As of November 2017 it has a distance from the Sun...
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    Space Administration's Interstellar Express, a trio of probes designed to explore the heliosphere, would have its second probe (IHP-2) explore Neptune...
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    The Parker Solar Probe (PSP; previously Solar Probe, Solar Probe Plus or Solar Probe+) is a NASA space probe launched in 2018 to make observations of...
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    Pioneer 10 (category Derelict space probes)
    cosmic rays, and eventually the far reaches of the Solar System and heliosphere. Radio communications were lost with Pioneer 10 on January 23, 2003,...
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    System environment (the heliosphere), and interactions of Earth, other planets, small bodies, and interstellar gas with the heliosphere. Division research...
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    the entire Solar System. Both regions lie well beyond the heliosphere and are in interstellar space. The innermost portion of the Oort cloud is more than...
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    the heliosphere, which is a comet-shaped-like object", said Voyager project scientist Edward Stone. In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe, named...
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