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  1. It's Official Voyager 1 has Finally Reached Interstellar Space

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  3. Voyager 1: Facts about Earth's farthest spacecraft

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  4. Voyager 1 grand tour and beyond

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  1. Voyager 1 Stuns NASA with Mysterious Encounter in Interstellar Space

  2. Nasa Warns Us That Voyager 1 Made An Encounter In Deep Space

  3. Voyager 1: Humanity's Farthest Journey into Space #space #spacesecrets #universe #science

  4. NASA Warns That Voyager 1 Has Made “incredible” Discovery Before Shutting It Down!

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  1. Voyager

    Note: Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is speeding away from the inner solar system, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of year. Distance from Sun: This is a real-time indicator of Voyagers' straight-line distance from the sun in astronomical units (AU) and either miles (mi ...

  2. Where Are They Now?

    Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos. ... Voyager's Grand Tour Timeline. Mission Status. Voyager 1. Voyager 2. Launch Date. Monday, Sep 5, 1977 12:56:00 UTC. Saturday Aug 20, 1977 14:29:00 UTC. Mission Elapsed Time.

  3. Voyager 1

    Voyager 1 has been exploring our solar system since 1977. The probe is now in interstellar space, the region outside the heliopause, or the bubble of energetic particles and magnetic fields from the Sun. Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, but because of a faster route it exited the asteroid belt earlier than its twin, and it overtook Voyager 2 on Dec. 15, 1977.

  4. Voyager 1 Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments

    The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023. The team partially resolved the issue in April when they prompted the spacecraft to begin returning engineering data, which includes information about the health […]

  5. Voyager 1

    About the mission. Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in August 2012 and is the most distant human-made object in existence. Launched just shortly after its twin spacecraft, Voyager 2, in 1977, Voyager 1 explored the Jovian and Saturnian systems discovering new moons, active volcanoes and a wealth of data about the outer solar system.

  6. Voyager

    This is a real-time indicator of Voyager 1's distance from Earth in astronomical units (AU) and either miles (mi) or kilometers (km). Note: Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is speeding away from the inner solar system, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of year.

  7. Voyager 1

    Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. ... A 1960s proposal for a Grand Tour to study the outer planets led NASA to begin work on a mission during the early 1970s.

  8. 45 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Begins its Epic Journey to the Outer ...

    Today, 45 years after its launch and 14.6 billion miles from Earth, four of Voyager 1's 11 instruments continue to return useful data, having now spent 10 years in interstellar space. Signals from the spacecraft take nearly 22 hours to reach Earth, and 22 hours for Earth-based signals to reach the spacecraft.

  9. Inside NASA's monthslong effort to rescue the Voyager 1 mission

    Inside NASA's 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in interstellar space. The Voyager 1 probe is the most distant human-made object in existence. After a major effort to restore ...

  10. Voyager 1: 'The Spacecraft That Could' Hits New Milestone

    Voyager 1 is literally venturing into the great unknown and is approaching interstellar space. Traveling at a speed of about one million miles per day, Voyager 1 could cross into interstellar space within the next 10 years. "Interstellar space is filled with material ejected by explosions of nearby stars," Stone said.

  11. Voyager 1: Facts about Earth's farthest spacecraft

    Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and reach interstellar space . The probe launched on Sept. 5, 1977 — about two weeks after its twin Voyager 2 — and as of ...

  12. 40 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Explores Jupiter

    40 Years Ago: Voyager 1 Explores Jupiter. Today, Voyager 1 is the most distant spacecraft from Earth, more than 13 billion miles away. Forty years ago, fairly close to the beginning of its incredible journey through and out of our solar system, it was making its closest approach to Jupiter. Although it was not the first to explore the giant ...

  13. Voyager

    The Voyager 1 and 2 Saturn encounters occurred nine months apart, in November 1980 and August 1981. Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system. Voyager 2 completed its encounter with Uranus in January 1986 and with Neptune in August 1989, and is now also en route out of the solar system.

  14. Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space

    Voyager-1 was launched from Earth in 1977 on a tour of the outer planets, but then just kept going. ... Voyager-1 departed Earth on 5 September 1977, a few days after its sister spacecraft, Voyager-2.

  15. The Voyager missions

    The Voyager program consists of two spacecraft: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Voyager 2 was actually launched first, in August 1977, but Voyager 1 was sent on a faster trajectory when it launched about two weeks later. They are the only two functioning spacecraft currently in interstellar space, beyond the environment controlled by the sun.

  16. NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

    Voyager 1 stopped sending readable science and engineering data back to Earth on Nov. 14, 2023, even though mission controllers could tell the spacecraft was still receiving their commands and otherwise operating normally. In March, the Voyager engineering team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed that the ...

  17. Voyager 1, Humanity's Farthest Spacecraft, Marks 40 Years in Space

    NASA's Voyager 1 probe lifted off on Sept. 5, 1977, a few weeks after its twin, Voyager 2. Together, the two Voyager spacecraft performed an epic "Grand Tour" of the solar system's giant planets ...

  18. Voyager program

    A poster of the planets and moons visited during the Voyager program. The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, to fly near them while collecting data for transmission ...

  19. Voyager: The Grand Tour of Big Science

    Despite the name change, Voyager remained in many ways the Grand Tour concept, though certainly not the Grand Tour (TOPS) spacecraft. Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, followed by Voyager 1 on September 5, 1977. The decision to reverse the order of launch had to do with keeping open the possibility of carrying out the Grand Tour ...

  20. Grand Tour program

    Trajectories of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The Grand Tour is a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System.It called for four spacecraft, two of which would visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, while the other two would visit Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.The enormous cost of the project, around $1 billion, led to its cancellation and ...

  21. Voyager 1 is back to life in interstellar space, but for how long?

    Voyager 1 and its twin, ... Both visited Jupiter and Saturn, and Voyager 2 went on to Uranus and Neptune in what was known as the "Grand Tour" of the outer solar system, enabled by a rare ...

  22. Ed Stone, who led NASA's iconic Voyager project for 50 years, dies at

    Voyager launched twin probes on a "grand tour" of the solar system's giant planets in 1977. ... Voyager 1 is currently more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, and its twin is ...

  23. Fast Facts

    Planetary Tour. Between them, Voyager 1 and 2 explored all the giant planets of our solar system; 48 moons orbiting them; and unique systems of rings and magnetic fields surrounding them. Explore. 03. Most Distant Spacecraft. On Feb. 17, 1998, Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space. 04.

  24. 1 Voyager Episode Hilariously Poked Fun At Star Trek's Holodeck Problem

    Star Trek: Voyager season 3 cleverly made fun of a systemic problem the franchise has with holodeck episodes. Like some other Star Trek TV shows, Voyager season 3 was in many ways the beginning of a turning point for the show, where better quality episodes began to appear with more frequency than seasons 1 and 2.Especially toward the end of season 3, when Voyager was moving towards some big ...

  25. Slice of History

    On 5 March 1979, Voyager 1 passed Jupiter for the first time in a landmark moment in global space history. Designed to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment that occurs only once in 176 years, Voyagers 1 and 2 remain both the most distant human-made objects in existence and the most well-traveled spacecraft in history.

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    Pinehurst No. 2 is a historic course that promises to provide a classic U.S. Open examination. Conditions are expected to be tough, testing the best players in the world. The first round is ...

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  30. Ed Stone, Former Director of JPL and Voyager Project Scientist, Dies

    "Ed took humanity on a planetary tour of our solar system and beyond, sending NASA where no spacecraft had gone before. His legacy has left a tremendous and profound impact on NASA, the scientific community, and the world. ... When Voyager 1 and 2 made their close flybys of the giant planets between 1979 and 1989, Stone was overseeing 11 ...