16 December 2004
Termination Shock
Voyager 1 crosses the solar-wind termination shock and enters the heliosheath.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Heliosphere in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Voyager 1 crosses the solar-wind termination shock and enters the heliosheath.
Voyager 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach one hundred astronomical units from the Sun.
Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at a different distance from Voyager 1.
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