Voyager 1, which launched on Sept. 5, 1977, is roughly 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from the sun. Its twin, Voyager 2, which blasted off on Aug. 20 of the same year, is 9.3 billion ...

See the Photos That Taught Us About Saturn’s Rings. 2 minute read. The Nov. 24, ... on Nov. 12, 1980, that NASA’s Voyager 1 got as close to Saturn as it would in the course of its years-long ...

(Photos: Voyager, 11 Billion Years Later) Voyager 1, which flew on the flat past Jupiter and Saturn and then swung up and above the plane of the solar system in 1981, ...

NASA attempted a solution on April 18. Voyager 1 is so far away from Earth, it takes 22-and-a-half hours for a signal to reach the ship, and then the same time for it to get back.

Voyager 1 is the most distant object humans have sent from home. During its mission, it has gathered data on Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn’s moon Titan. It passed beyond out solar system on August ...

Its twin, Voyager 2, was actually launched before Voyager 1, on August 20, 1977. Its interplanetary grand tour took it past Jupiter in July 1979, Saturn in August 1981, Uranus in June 1986 and ...

Voyager 1 took this photo of Jupiter and two of its satellites (Io, left, and Europa) on Feb. 13, 1979. Io is about 220,000 miles above Jupiter's Great Red Spot; Europa is about 375,000 miles ...

In mid-November, Voyager 1 suffered a glitch, and it's messages stopped making sense. But the NASA probe is once again sending messages to Earth that make sense. We recently shared news of some ...

Voyager 1, along with its sister craft, Voyager 2, are robotic probes that were launched in 1977. Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in 2012. It's now 15.1 billion miles away, the farthest from ...

Given Voyager 1’s immense distance from Earth, it takes a radio signal about 22.5 hours to reach the probe, and another 22.5 hours for a response signal from the spacecraft to reach Earth.

Voyager 2, now 12.7 billion miles from Earth, is functioning normally. However, a computer problem aboard Voyager 1 on Nov. 14, 2023, corrupted the stream of science and engineering data the craft ...