NASA update on current status of Voyager 1

Written by Jia-Rui C. Cook
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, CA – “The Voyager team is aware of reports today that NASA’s Voyager 1 has left the solar system,” said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

“It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar spacem,” stated Stone.

Stone went on to say, “In December 2012, the Voyager science team reported that Voyager 1 is within a new region called ‘the magnetic highway’ where energetic particles changed dramatically. A change in the direction of the magnetic field is the last critical indicator of reaching interstellar space and that change of direction has not yet been observed.”

The Voyager spacecraft were built and continue to be operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, CA. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. The Voyager missions are a part of NASA’s Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

To learn more about the current status of the Voyager mission, see: NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft enters New Region of our Solar System on it’s way to Interstellar Space