🛰️ Mission
Voyager 1
The furthest human object, still calling home after 49 years.
- Launched
- 5 September 1977, 49 years ago
- Working for
- 49 years so far
- Built by
- NASA
- Where it is
- In interstellar space, more than 25 billion km away and climbing
- Best known for
- Left the Sun’s bubble in 2012, the first thing we have made to do so
Did you know?
- It carries a gold-plated record of sounds and pictures from Earth, in case anyone ever finds it.
- It launched with ten instruments. Power drops by about four watts a year, so they have been switched off one by one; two are still on.
Where it went
Jupiter
The biggest planet, with a storm larger than Earth.
Saturn
The ringed giant, light enough to float in water.
Titan
A moon with thick air, rain, rivers and lakes.
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All of missions
Hubble Space Telescope
Thirty-six years above the weather, and still working.
James Webb Space Telescope
A golden mirror that sees the first galaxies in infrared.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The telescope that shows what is hot and violent.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
Kepler
Stared at one patch of sky and found thousands of planets.
TESS
Kepler’s successor, watching the whole sky for planets.