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April 1, 2013 05:40 am GMT
In late March, the American Geophysical Union announced that the Voyager I space probe became the first man-made object to leave our solar system. Just a few hours later though, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shot down that claim noting that the tell-tale sign of hitting interstellar space (a "a change in the direction of the magnetic field") hasn't been detected yet.Still, this whole thing got me thinking: NASA launched Voyager I in 1972 to peer more closely at the outer planets. By late 1980 the probe had completed its tour of Jupiter and Saturn, and made a gravity-assisted beeline for the edge of the solar system. In the 40 or so years that Voyager has toured the outer fringes of the solar system, our focus on space has grown more limited, and in many ways it's a new breed of space-based startups that are helping to spark imaginations the way NASA has done for decades.
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Ambitious Startups Could Signal The Coming Of A Second Space Age
In late March, the American Geophysical Union announced that the Voyager I space probe became the first man-made object to leave our solar system. Just a few hours later though, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory shot down that claim noting that the tell-tale sign of hitting interstellar space (a "a change in the direction of the magnetic field") hasn't been detected yet.Still, this whole thing got me thinking: NASA launched Voyager I in 1972 to peer more closely at the outer planets. By late 1980 the probe had completed its tour of Jupiter and Saturn, and made a gravity-assisted beeline for the edge of the solar system. In the 40 or so years that Voyager has toured the outer fringes of the solar system, our focus on space has grown more limited, and in many ways it's a new breed of space-based startups that are helping to spark imaginations the way NASA has done for decades.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ploJDImW_VI/
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