Voyager 1 is a man-made spacecraft represented in the Solar System, the region of space around the Sun, our star, within the universe. Its catalogue reference body is Sun. Explore its story and purpose, then find the spacecraft on the interactive 3D space map.

Voyager 1 — Explores the outer Solar System and the environment beyond the heliosphere.

Mission and scientific objectives
Voyager 1 is associated with NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Explores the outer Solar System and the environment beyond the heliosphere. The mission type is Interstellar probe.

Mission chronology
1979: Jupiter flyby.
1980: Saturn and Titan encounters.
2012: Entered interstellar space.

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.

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