Voyager still inside solar system, says NASA

The US space agency on Wednesday, March 20, denied a claim made in a scientific study that its Voyager 1 spacecraft had left the solar system, describing the report as “premature.” Scientists are eagerly awaiting signs that the craft, which was launched in 1977 on a mission to study planets, has become the first man-made object to leave the boundaries of our solar system. “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, California. “It is the consensus of the Voyager science team that Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space,” he said.

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