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It communicates through the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data are provided by NASA and JPL . [ 4 ] At a distance of 166.28 AU (24.9 billion km; 15.5 billion mi) from Earth as of December 2024 [update] , [ 4 ] it is the most distant human-made object from ...
It overtook Pioneer 11 in 1981, [13] and then Pioneer 10—becoming the probe farthest from the Sun—on February 17, 1998. [14] Voyager 2 is moving faster than all other probes launched before it; it overtook Pioneer 11 in the late 1980s and then Pioneer 10 — becoming the second-farthest spacecraft from the Sun — on July 18, 2023. [15] [16]
It is currently the furthest man-made object from Earth, as well as the first object to leave the heliosphere and cross into interstellar space. As of November 2017 it has a distance from the Sun of about 140 astronomical units (AU) [10] (21 billion kilometers, or 0.002 light years), and it will not be overtaken by any other current craft.
The Voyager 1 probe left our solar system nearly a decade ago. It recently detected a faint hum made by interstellar gas.
The spacecraft, still traveling at 64,000 km/h (40,000 mph), is the most distant human-made object from Earth and the first one to leave the Solar System. [5] Its mission has been extended and continues to this day, with the aim of investigating the boundaries of the Solar System, including the Kuiper belt, the heliosphere and interstellar space.
The Voyager 1 probe is currently the farthest human-made object from Earth.Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached interstellar space, the region between stars where the galactic plasma is present. [4]
NASA's exploration robots have rumbled around Mars, swooped around Saturn, and flown well beyond the planets, into interstellar space. But the space agency's engineers often direct their machines ...
The two Voyagers are the only human-made objects to date that have passed into interstellar space — a record they will hold until at least the 2040s — and Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. [13]