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Voyager-2 became the second artificially created object in interstellar space. Like the first Voyager-1 model, it went beyond the heliosphere. This is reported on the NASA website.
Voyager-2 was launched to study the solar system in 1977. Initially, it was planned that the probe would work for up to five years, but in August 2018, the mission celebrated its 41st anniversary. The device is now located behind 118 astronomical units of the Earth (one astronomical unit represents about 149.6 million km).
This figure shows the location of the Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 probes out of the heliosphere.
NASA / JPL-Caltech
Since 2007, the probe was in the outer layer of the heliosphere, a space consisting mainly of solar winds and solar magnetic fields. At the edge of the heliosphere, the solar wind speed decreases almost to zero. And at a distance of more than 200 astronomical units from the Sun, stellar wind particles begin to brake.
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