On September 5, 1977 NASA launched Voyager 1 from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was launched on a Titan-Centaur expendable rocket.
Voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. The Voyagers were part of a program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on a faster, shorter trajectory.
Voyager 1 was launched to fly by Jupiter and Saturn. In August 2012, it crossed into interstellar space. Voyager 1 is now billions of miles outside the heliopause, which is as far from that boundary as Neptune is from Earth. It's still making discoveries and sending information back to Earth.
Voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. The Voyagers were part of a program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space. Voyager 1 was launched on a faster, shorter trajectory.
Voyager 1 was launched to fly by Jupiter and Saturn. In August 2012, it crossed into interstellar space. Voyager 1 is now billions of miles outside the heliopause, which is as far from that boundary as Neptune is from Earth. It's still making discoveries and sending information back to Earth.