Voyager Space Probe
The voyager program is an american scientific program that employs two robotic probes voyager 1 and voyager 2 launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of jupiter saturn uranus and neptune.
Voyager space probe. 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. Nasa s voyager 1 spacecraft has reached yet another milestone in its journey into deep space outside of our solar system by crossing a threshold of 150 astronomical units au from the sun. Voyager 1 was the first spacecraft to cross the heliosphere the boundary where the influences outside our solar system are stronger than those from our sun.
Earth s farthest spacecraft voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space. Voyager 2 is only the second spacecraft to travel this far out into the solar system. Voyager 1 is a space probe that was launched by nasa on september 5 1977.
Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around jupiter and two new jovian moons. This is a real time indicator of voyager 1 s distance from earth in astronomical units au and either miles mi or kilometers km. Voyager 1 is the first human made object to venture into interstellar space.
It originally was launched along with voyager 2 in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our. The twin voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from earth has flown before.