Thanks for riding along these past few weeks as we 'voyaged' back in time and celebrated 45 years of Voyager! For the rest of time, the Voyagers will continue orbiting around the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, with our sun but a tiny point of light among many.✨
Photo 1: Voyager Encapsulation - The Voyager 2 spacecraft, which was the first of the two Voyagers to launch, is seen at the Spacecraft Assembly and Encapsulation Facility-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The spacecraft was put into this shroud on August 2, 1977, to protect it during flight through the atmosphere.
Photo 2: Mementos of Earth – as the two Voyager spacecraft travel out into deep space, they carry a small American flag and a Golden Record packed with pictures and sounds – mementos of our home planet. This picture shows John Casani, Voyager project manager in 1977.
Photo 3: Voyager 1’s 8-track digital tape recorder
Photo 4: Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – Taken by Voyager 1 from a distance of 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers). The great red spot is three times as large as Earth!
Photo 5: Saturn and three moons taken by Voyager 2
Photo 6: Farewell shot of crescent of Uranus taken by Voyager 2
Photo 7: Detail of Neptune’s rings - This wide-angle Voyager 2 image, taken through the camera's clear filter, is the first to show Neptune's rings in detail.
Photo 8: Earth as ‘Pale Blue Dot’ - part of the first ever 'portrait' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera.
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On this day in 1977 - 16 days after Voyager 2 - the Voyager 1 space probe was launched from Space Launch Complex 41 at then Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket.
After making flybys of Jupiter and Saturn - including that planet's largest moon, Titan - Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in 2012. Still operational and sending science data, Voyager 1 is continuing its journey, currently at a distance of more than 23.5 billion km from Earth - making it the most distant human-made object.
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Engineers have repaired an issue affecting telemetry data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft.
Earlier this year, the probe’s attitude articulation and control (AACS) system, which keeps Voyager 1’s antenna pointed at Earth, began sending garbled information to mission controllers despite operating normally. The team identified the source of the glitch – data was being routed through an onboard computer that stopped working years ago – and corrected it but continue to investigate the root cause.
For now, both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue their exploration of the space between the stars.
As we continue to celebrate the Voyagers’ 45th anniversary, join mission team members for a live Q&A today on YouTube and Facebook at 12:15pm PT / 3:15pm ET / 7:15pm UTC.
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