Prelude

The spacecraft, named Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were launched in September and August of 1977. They were instrumental in accumulating the vast amount of knowledge we have on our solar system which we take for granted today.

Even though the Voyager mission was meant to explore our solar system, something groundbreaking happened decades after.

Voyager became the first — and indeed the only — mission to take humanity into Interstellar space and became known as the Voyager Interstellar Mission.

In August of 2012, 35 years after it was launched, Voyager 1 passed though the heliopause and entered Interstellar space.

In December of 2018, Voyager 2 joined its sibling in Interstellar space, around 11 billion miles (18 billion km) from Earth.

Stuff like this inspires our team at Interstellar and we see parallels between the Voyager programme and what we constantly try to achieve with our Interstellar app — pushing boundaries and going beyond our comfort zones. We launched the Interstellar app two years ago in October 2017, as a decentralised payment platform, and since then we’ve gone above and beyond our original mission with Proxima Centauri, Sirius, Pathfinder, Vega, and our latest Interstellar v4.0 release, codenamed VOYAGER in honour of the Voyager Interstellar Mission.

Press Release

Today, we release Interstellar v4.0 (codenamed Voyager) to the general public. The Interstellar app provides a complete digital currency experience for individuals, professionals, organisations and even IoT devices. Using Stellar blockchain technology, Interstellar allows anyone to easily create, send, receive, swap, secure, and trade Digital Currencies and other Tokenised Assets at the speed of light. Available on all major platforms, at home, at work or on the go.

According to the CEO, Ernest Mbenkum,

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Interstellar v4.0 (Voyager update), is our team’s latest effort in building blockchain tools and services for the future where everything will be tokenised not just for humans, but also for IoT devices and AI analytical purposes. We are getting ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution”

According to the CTO, Fritz Ekwoge,

“Interstellar v4.0 (Voyager update) is our most ambitious release yet, without sacrificing security, and the decentralised nature of our platform. We are getting closer to one our goals of providing decentralised financial inclusion tools for the underbanked and unbanked. "

Other than major UX and performance improvements, Interstellar v4.0 achieved two other major milestones.

Firstly, our all new All-Spark is the best new way for Interstellar users to transfer assets between themselves, without the need for trustlines and funded accounts. This is an issue which had long plagued many Stellar users. Secondly, our SEP6/SEP24 integration now empowers Interstellar users to have easier access to even more third party non-Stellar asset gateways (anchors), and allows users to interact with those non-stellar asset gateways without leaving the app!

This is all very powerful and liberating stuff, and we are making this major Interstellar update available to the public today.

Interstellar v4.0 is immediately available on the web at https://interstellar.exchange. Mobile versions are also available on the Apple iOS and Google Play stores. Windows and Mac desktop app updates will follow shortly.

New Features in Interstellar v4.0 (Voyager Update)