NASA's nearly interstellar mission

Its in the latest edition of 'New Scientist' magazine. The cover of
this edition is he

http://info.newscientist.com/?bbcam=...de=JF+-+Google

It'll just jupiter to give its velocity a giant push, and have ion
thrusters to give it sufficient speed to reach the edge of
interstellar space, and go into the void.

Looks good, pity I'll either be very old or very dead by the time we
get data from that very outer edge of our system.

Christopher wrote:
Its in the latest edition of 'New Scientist' magazine. The cover of
this edition is he

http://info.newscientist.com/?bbcam=...de=JF+-+Google

The article does not say it explicitely, but it is obvious from the
listed launch windows and the trajectories displayed, that the mission
is intended to go in one specific direction. What is special about that
direction? I assume it is where the "Local Fluff"[1] is thinnest, but
it would be nice if New Scientist mentioned that.

[1]"Local Fluff" is a cloud of unusually dense (by interstellar
standards) gas Solar System is currently embedded in.