DocumentCode
14423
Title
Earth´s first starships
Author
Bizony, Piers
Volume
8
Issue
11
fYear
2013
fDate
Dec-13
Firstpage
44
Lastpage
47
Abstract
After 36 years hurtling through space at around 18km per second, Voyager 1 has crossed an incredible boundary. It is the first manmade object to reach interstellar space. We look at the past of a spacecraft that will outlive every conceivable human future.
Keywords
space vehicles; Voyager 1; interstellar space; manmade object; starship;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Engineering & Technology
Publisher
iet
ISSN
1750-9637
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/et.2013.1103
Filename
6679124
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