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Mar 10, 2024 · Eyes on Voyager. This near real-time 3D data visualization uses actual spacecraft and planet positions to show the location of both Voyager 1 and 2 and many other spacecraft exploring our galactic neighborhood.
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.
- United States of America (USA)
- Voyager 1
- Jupiter Flyby, Saturn Flyby
- 1,592 pounds (721.9 kilograms)
Voyager 1's trajectory, designed to send the spacecraft closely past the large moon Titan and behind Saturn's rings, bent the spacecraft's path inexorably northward out of the ecliptic plane -- the plane in which most of the planets orbit the Sun. Voyager 2 was aimed to fly by Saturn at a point that would automatically send the spacecraft in the direction of Uranus.
Sep 7, 2022 · Voyager 1 lifted off on Sept. 5, 1977, atop a Titan IIIE-Centaur rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, now Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida. Two weeks after its launch, from a distance of 7.25 million miles, Voyager 1 turned its camera back toward its home planet and took the first single-frame image of the Earth-Moon system.
- John Uri
Oct 19, 2023 · If it weren’t for this idiosyncratic technique, Voyager 1 wouldn’t have made it nearly as far – it is now the farthest and the fastest object man has ever propelled into space. It has now receded 18.8 billion km away from us, while Voyager 2, which embarked on a slightly different path, at 15.3 billion km, isn’t far behind.
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The final Voyager mission plan looked like this: Two spacecraft (Voyager 1 and Voyager 2) would be launched a few weeks apart. Voyager 1 would fly past Jupiter and several of Jupiter’s moons from a relatively close distance, scanning and taking photos. Voyager 2 would also fly past Jupiter, but at a more conservative distance.
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Oct 23, 2024 · Voyager 1 will reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud in about 300 years and could take 30,000 years to fly beyond it. Where Is Voyager 2 Now? Voyager 2 is around 12.8 billion miles from Earth.
