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Voyager 1 & 2
Launched 1977; Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object β 24 billion km from Earth
USA πΊπΈ 1977 Space Missions
Key Facts
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Launched 1977; both spacecraft have left the Solar System (heliosphere); Voyager 1 is 24 billion km from Earth (2024)
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Voyager 2 is only spacecraft to fly by all 4 outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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Both carry the "Golden Record" β a 12-inch gold-plated disc with music, sounds and images of Earth; Carl Sagan curated it
π Did you know? Voyager carries a Golden Record with sounds and images of Earth β a message in a bottle for any alien civilisation
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Space Missions
Region
πΊπΈ USA
Year / Era
1977
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Launched 1977