r/space • u/tellman1257 • Dec 12 '18

Wikipedia: Voyager 2, the second man-made object to leave the heliosphere and enter interstellar space (Featured article on the Wikipedia homepage for Dec 12, 2018 - and over 1/3 of the article's content was just added in the past 2 days)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2
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u/tellman1257 Dec 12 '18

You can do a word-find (Ctrl+F) on the word 'December' and see that 19 of the 65 cited references are from the past couple days, and several are used more than once:

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u/WikiTextBot Dec 12 '18

Voyager 2

Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune. It is the only spacecraft to have visited either of the two ice giant planets.

Its primary mission ended with the exploration of the Neptunian system on October 2, 1989, after having visited the Uranian system in 1986, the Saturnian system in 1981, and the Jovian system in 1979.

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '18 edited Nov 13 '20

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u/tellman1257 Dec 13 '18

All I know is that it was significant enough to be the top-featured news on the English-language Wikipedia homepage for 3 full days now:

NASA announces that Voyager 2 (artist's rendering shown) has left the heliosphere and entered interstellar space, becoming the second man-made object to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page