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  5. NASA's Voyager 1 probe in interstellar space can't phone home (again

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  1. Where Are They Now?

    Where Are They Now? Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos. In NASA's Eyes on the Solar System app, you can see the actual spacecraft trajectories of the Voyagers updated every five minutes.

  2. Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data

    After the team relocated the code to a new location in the FDS, Voyager 1 finally sent back intelligible data on April 20, 2024 — but only from two of its four science instruments. Now, just two ...

  3. Voyager 1

    Voyager 1 has been exploring our solar system since 1977. The probe is now in interstellar space, the region outside the heliopause, or the bubble of energetic particles and magnetic fields from the Sun. Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, but because of a faster route it exited the asteroid belt earlier than its twin, and it overtook Voyager 2 on Dec. 15, 1977.

  4. How the Voyager probes keep going and going decades after launch

    Both Voyager probes have outlived their original missions and are exploring interstellar space more than 45 years after launch. ... Now, that power can be used to keep Voyager 2's instruments up ...

  5. Voyager 1 live position and data

    This page shows Voyager 1 location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details). The sky map shown in the background represents a rectangular portion of the sky 60x40 arcminutes wide.

  6. Voyager

    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.

  7. Voyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probe

    Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it humanity's most distant spacecraft.

  8. NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth

    The probe and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to ever fly in interstellar space (the space between stars). Voyager 1 stopped sending readable science and engineering data back to Earth on Nov. 14, 2023, even though mission controllers could tell the spacecraft was still receiving their commands and otherwise operating normally.

  9. NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space

    For the second time in history, a human-made object has reached the space between the stars. NASA's Voyager 2 probe now has exited the heliosphere - the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields created by the Sun.. Members of NASA's Voyager team will discuss the findings at a news conference at 11 a.m. EST (8 a.m. PST) today at the meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU ...

  10. Voyager 1 Sends Clear Data to NASA for the First Time in Five Months

    The probe is now about eight times farther from the sun than Uranus is on average. Over the decades, the Voyager spacecraft have transmitted data collected on their travels back to NASA scientists.

  11. The most distant spacecraft in the solar system

    We now have five spacecraft that have either reached the edges of our solar system or are fast approaching it: Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons. Most of these probes ...

  12. Voyager, NASA's Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space

    Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA's longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. NASA's twin Voyager probes have become, in some ways, time capsules of their era: They each carry an eight-track tape player for recording data, they have about 3 million times less memory than modern cellphones, and they transmit data about 38,000 ...

  13. Voyager 1 survives clogged thruster issue billions of miles away

    But now, clogging has reduced it to 0.0015 inches (0.035 millimeters) — half the width of a human hair, according to NASA. ... As Voyager 1 and its twin probe, Voyager 2, have aged, the mission ...

  14. Voyager, NASA's Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space

    Aug. 17, 2022. This archival image taken at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on March 23, 1977, shows engineers preparing the Voyager 2 spacecraft ahead of its launch later that year. Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA's longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space. NASA's twin ...

  15. NASA Beats the Odds With Ingenious Voyager 1 Thruster ...

    An artist's concept shows the Voyager spacecraft traveling through space against a field of stars. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA 's Voyager 1 team tackled complex challenges by successfully switching to backup thrusters after the primary ones became clogged with silicon dioxide.. The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes ...

  16. Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down

    Voyager 2 now has five remaining functioning instruments, and Voyager 1 has four. All are powered by a device that converts heat from the radioactive decay of plutonium into electricity.

  17. Voyager Stories

    Voyager 1 Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments. The spacecraft has resumed gathering information about interstellar space. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is conducting normal science operations for the first time following a technical issue that arose in November 2023. The team partially resolved the issue in April when….

  18. Where are the Voyagers now?

    Voyager 2 is now more than 96 AU from the sun, traveling at a speed of 15.5 kilometers per second (9.6 miles per second). Both spacecraft are moving considerably faster than Pioneers 10 and 11, two earlier spacecraft that became the first robotic visitors to fly past Jupiter and Saturn in the mid-70s. This processed color image of Jupiter was ...

  19. Voyager program

    A poster of the planets and moons visited during the Voyager program. The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, to fly near them while collecting data for transmission ...

  20. NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix as it flies

    Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster issues making it difficult for the spacecraft to stay pointed at Earth when calling home ...

  21. Voyager 1 and 2: The Interstellar Mission

    Voyager 2 also took pictures of Uranus and Neptune. Together, the Voyager missions discovered 22 moons. Since then, these spacecraft have continued to travel farther away from us. Voyager 1 and 2 are now so far away that they are in interstellar space—the region between the stars. No other spacecraft have ever flown this far away.

  22. Mission Overview

    The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, the Voyagers were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets.

  23. Timeline

    Spacecraft-Voyager 1-Voyager 2. The Golden Record. Overview. ... Images of Voyager. Illustrations. What is the Pale Blue Dot? Where Are They Now? FAQ. Frequently Asked Questions. Fact Sheet. Fast Facts. Q&A with Ed Stone ... Timeline. Explore the outer solar system and beyond with the twin Voyager spacecraft using real spacecraft data. Keep ...

  24. Fact Sheet

    The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, the Voyagers were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets. ... Voyager 1 is now leaving the solar system, rising above ...