Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU

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1. Story
2. The spacecraft passed through the surface where the supersonic solar wind is abruptly slowed against the pressure of the interstellar medium, and entered the heliosheath. This was not the edge of the Sun's influence but the first of its boundaries; another eight years of travel lay between this crossing and the heliopause.
3. Knowledge
4. Voyager 1
5. Solar wind
6. Termination shock
7. Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU
8. Connections
9. Termination shock
10. Voyager 1
11. Solar wind
12. Solar wind
13. Heliosphere
14. Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU
15. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
16. The Grand Tour alignment
17. Voyager 2
18. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
19. Titan
20. NASA Deep Space Network
21. Gravity assist
22. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
23. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
24. Jupiter
25. Saturn
26. Titan
27. Voyager high-gain antenna
28. Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS)
29. Titan IIIE-Centaur
30. Edward C. Stone
31. The Voyager Golden Record
32. Carl Sagan
33. Pale Blue Dot
34. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
35. Voyager 1 launches
36. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
37. Active volcanism found on Io
38. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
39. Voyager 1 photographs the solar system from outside it
40. Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU
41. Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause at 121.6 AU
42. The 2012 crossing is confirmed from plasma oscillations
43. Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem is switched off
44. Voyager 1's low-energy charged particle instrument due for shutdown
45. Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth
46. Heliosphere
47. Termination shock
48. Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU
49. Evidence
50. Voyager 1 crossed the solar wind termination shock on 16 December 2004 at about 94 AU and entered the heliosheath. V55 verification basis: NOT CHECKED IN THIS RUN. The session's search budget was exhausted before this crossing could be searched and the publisher domain is blocked; the citation is given from standard mission record without page numbers precisely because they were not confirmed. A curator must verify the date, the distance and the citation before publication.