Nearly five decades after launch, humanity's most distant emissary continues transmitting from the edge of the known universe, defying every prediction about how long it should have lasted. The post On 5 September 1977 a 721.9 kg spacecraft left Cape Canaveral’s LC-41; Voyager 1 reached interstellar space on 25 August 2012 and was 164.7 AU from Earth on 21 August 2024, still sending data appeared first on Space Daily .
On 5 September 1977 a 721.9 kg spacecraft left Cape Canaveral’s LC-41; Voyager 1 reached interstellar space on 25 August 2012 and was 164.7 AU from Earth on 21 August 2024, still sending data
