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Voyager 1 and the other probes that are in or on their way to interstellar space, except New Horizons. Voyager 1 transmitted audio signals generated by plasma waves from interstellar space. On September 12, 2013, NASA officially confirmed that Voyager 1 had reached the interstellar medium in August 2012 as previously observed. The generally ...
In June 2012, Scientists at NASA reported that Voyager 1 was very close to entering interstellar space, indicated by a sharp rise in high-energy particles from outside the Solar System. [28] [29] In September 2013, NASA announced that Voyager 1 had crossed the heliopause on 25 August 2012, making it the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
Date is the date of: closest encounter (flybys) ... Voyager 1: NASA: 12 November 1980 flyby success ... 1 July 2023 (launch)
An illustration depicts NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012.
After months of trying to reestablish communication with the Voyager 1 probe — the most distant human-made object in existence — NASA finally announced success.
Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth from ...
Launch date Carrier rocket Operator Mission Type Outcome 1 Voyager 2: Voyager 2: 20 August 1977 [2] Titan IIIE Centaur-D1T [8] NASA: Flyby Successful Discovered eleven moons. Flew past Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon. Closest approach at 17:59 UTC on 24 January 1986. Later flew past Neptune. [9]
Members of the Voyager flight team celebrate after receiving the first coherent data from Voyager 1 in five months at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on April 20. - NASA/JPL-Caltech.