Pioneer spacecraft 'anomaly' solved, and it's not new physics
Friday, July 20, 2012 - 14:30
in Astronomy & Space
A Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher has solved the so-called Pioneer anomaly -- the unexpected slowing of the two Pioneer spacecraft -- and shown that it is not due to unknown physics, as some theoreticians had speculated. Instead, it is the result of heat radiated by the spacecraft.