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 planetary alignment to …

Apr 17, 2026 · Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft ever to reach the edge of interstellar space..

Sep 8, 2025 · NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for extraterrestrial life.

Launch Date: 5 September 1977 Mission: Explore Jupiter, Saturn and their satellites Arrived at Jupiter: March 1979 Arrived at Saturn: November 1980 Launched from Kennedy Space Center, Voyager 1 …

Nov 4, 2025 · On November 13, 2026, Voyager Will Reach One Full Light-Day Away From Earth It took the spacecraft nearly five decades to get there. It takes light a day.

Sep 4, 2025 · The space agency made sure the Voyager missions were ready to be launched in 1977 at that particular time because something special was about to take place in our solar system. A space …

Voyager 6 was a deep space probe launched from Earth by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the latter half of the 20th century. The sixth probe in the Voyager series, it …

May 13, 2026 · Voyager 1, robotic U.S. interplanetary probe launched in 1977 that visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space. Voyager 1 swung by Jupiter on March …

Apr 19, 2026 · A spacecraft built for five years that has lasted nearly 50 Voyager 1 is a robotic space probe launched on Sept. 5, 1977, from Cape Canaveral aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. It weighed …

6 days ago · Constellations Voyager 1 is now so far from Earth that a signal traveling at the speed of light takes more than 22 hours to reach it — so when engineers send a command, they can wait …