Voyager Spacecraft Enters Solar System's Final Frontier

See the posting at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.space.news/msg/b67998f41f125b14
or JPL's copy at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-084.

Woot! Woot!

"The consensus of the team is that Voyager 1, at approximately 8.7
billion miles from the Sun, has at last entered the heliosheath, the
region beyond the termination shock."

Way-to-go, kiddos! Yeah, JPL!

/dps

The edits in different versions of the press release are interesting.
The three versions below are obviously based on the same source.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2005-084

Last paragraph reads like an afterthought on Voyager's power source,
and mentions RTG, DOE, and plutonium.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/...yager_agu.html

Headquarters keeps RTG, but drops DOE and plutonium.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0505/24voyager/

Drops entire last paragraph about power source. The editor probably
felt it was not germane to the main subject of the news release.