In Anticipation of New Horizons Entering Interstellar Space, Researchers are Developing a Solar Wind Forecasting Method

July 04, 2026 Universe Today

In Anticipation of New Horizons Entering Interstellar Space, Researchers are Developing a Solar Wind Forecasting Method
By Matthew Williams (https://ift.tt/964tzXU)

Solar wind data and solar wind pressure forecasts provide important information for heliospheric models to help predict when the New Horizons spacecraft will encounter the heliospheric termination shock, on its way to joining the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in interstellar space. Credit: Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler Planetarium/SwRI

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are using a solar wind forecasting method combined with analytic and numerical heliosphere models to find out where the first plasma boundary of the outer heliosphere lies as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hurtles toward this mysterious region of space.

July 5, 2026 at 03:46AM
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