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Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun. Voyager 1 reached the interstellar boundary in 2012, while Voyager 2 (traveling slower and in a different direction than its twin) reached it in 2018.

Mission Type

Multiple Flybys

launch

1977

Science Targets

Outer Solar System, Interstellar Space

Status

Extended Mission

Voyager Blog

Mission Updates

Get the latest updates on the two Voyager spacecraft.

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NASA’s Voyager 1 Revives Backup Thrusters Before Command Pause

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Old Missions, New Discoveries: NASA’s Data Archives Accelerate Science

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NASA Turns Off 2 Voyager Science Instruments to Extend Mission

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A 3D model of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft.
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    The Interstellar Mission

    After completing the first in-depth reconnaissance of the outer planets, the twin Voyagers are on a new mission to chart the edge of interstellar space.

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    The Golden Record

    The contents of the golden record were selected for NASA by a committee led by Carl Sagan of Cornell University.

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    The Spacecraft

    The twin Voyagers are escaping our solar system in different directions at more than 3 astronomical units (AU) per year; 1 AU is the distance from Earth to the Sun, or about 93 million miles.

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The Pale Blue Dot

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of Voyager 1's iconic image of Earth as "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam," captured as the spacecraft looked homeward from 3.7 billion miles away.

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👁 Earth as a tiny bluish dot suspended in a grainy beam of light.