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The Voyager 1 spacecraft, currently more than 20 billion km from earth, is powered by a radioisotope with a half-life of 87.7 years. It has been slowly shutting down systems since 2007 to conserve energy, and by 2025 will go completely dark as it loses the ability to power a single instrument.

To calculate the position of the Voyager 1 spacecraft some 12.5 billion miles away, you only need to use the first 15 digits of the value of Pi to be accurate within 1.5 inches

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  1. The measly 20W signal from Voyager 1, the equivalent of a fridge light-bulb, can be distinguished from background radiation in the sky almost instantly, despite being 11 billion miles away

  2. After almost 40 years, Voyager 1 is less than 19 light-hours into its first light-day from Earth

  3. Voyager 1, the only man made object to leave the solar system, is carrying, amongst other records, a song called Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground. This song is available to extraterrestrials, should they ever find it, but not available in India, Canada, or the UK on copyright grounds.

  4. In 39 years, 3 months and 7 days, Voyager 1 (the farthest manmade object from Earth) has only traveled roughly 19 light hours.

  5. Voyager 1, a spacecraft launched 40 years and two months ago, is only 19:35:13 light hours from Earth. It will reach a distance of 1 light day on Feb 18 2027.

  6. The Voyager 1 is still alive and well. In December of last year, it used its rockets to maneuver for the first time in 37 years

  7. In 2006, amateur German radio operators managed to receive radio signals from the Voyager 1 space probe, which at the time was 14.7 billion km away.

  8. The Voyager spacecraft gained a velocity of +35,700 mph at the expense of slowing the planet Jupiter down in its orbit by 1 foot every trillion years.

  9. Several spacecraft orbiting or completed flybys of Jupiter have explored Ganymede. The first mission to explore Ganymede up close was the Pioneer 10. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 passed by in 1979 and discovered Ganymede was larger than Saturn's moon Titan which was thought to have been bigger. In 1996, the Galileo spacecraft completed a close flyby and discovered the magnetic field, while the discovery of the ocean was announced in 2001.

  10. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is the farthest man-made object ever in the universe, at 19.5 billion kms

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Space probes have yet to reach the Oort Cloud. The inner planetary space probe Voyager 1 is currently leaving the Solar System and will reach the Oort Cloud in about 300 years and would take an estimated 30,000 years to pass through it.

The Beatles wanted to contribute "Here Comes the Sun" to Voyager 1's golden record, but couldn't secure permission from their record company. - source

Voyager 1 took 13 years to travel from Earth to just past the orbits of Pluto and Neptune. It took another 23 years to pass outside the solar system into interstellar space. - source

Voyager 1, the farthest manmade object in space, has a disc onboard meant to act as a 'message in a bottle' for aliens who might find the satellite. It contains Earth-related photos and sounds, greetings in 55 languages and works of Mozart and many other artists.

Voyager 1 will encounter a new star system in 40,000 years. - source

The Voyager 1 has reached Interstellar space and has encountered 3 "Tsunami Waves" since.

There have been four spacecraft from Earth to visit and orbit Saturn including Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and Cassini-Huygens.

Voyager 2 launched before Voyager 1 and this confused the media greatly. However, Voyager 1’s trajectory was much quicker and overtook Voyager 2 well before reaching Jupiter.

The Oort Cloud surrounding our solar system is so vast that it would take the Voyager 1 (traveling at 1 million miles per day) over 30,000 years to pass through it.

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Voyager 1 and 2 are still broadcasting data

6 Years ago Voyager 1 officially left our solar system

The song "Dark Was The Night" by Blind Willie Johnson is inside Voyager 1, which is currently flying through interstellar space in hopes of coming across extraterrestrial life. The song was meant to symbolize us as humans are very curious about exploring the unexplored universe around us.

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyer wanted to send an "unerotic photo of a man and pregnant woman holding hands" on the Voyager 1 (launched 40 years ago on this day) but NASA didn't want to "send smut into space".

The Voyager 2 spacecraft was launched two weeks earlier than Voyager 1

Light travels further in one day than anything manmade has ever travelled. (25.9 Tm vs 21.1 Tm, set by Voyager 1)

The sun's gravitational pull affects anything up to 200,000 AU distance away from the sun. The Voyager 1 has traveled 126.50 AU and the ninth planet is estimated to be at 400 AU.

Voyager 1 at 11 miles (17km) per second, is the fastest spacecraft launched from Earth. In a year it travels 325 million miles but at this rate will still take 20,000 years to travel one light year.

Voyager 1's Titan-Centaur rocket came within 3.5 seconds of running out of fuel when it carried the spacecraft aloft on Sept. 5, 1977

Vanguard 1, Earth's oldest artificial satellite still in space. Having spent nearly 60 years in orbit, the 1.5-kg craft circles the Earth every 133 minutes and has logged more distance than any other man-made object, except the Voyager and Pioneer probes

In 2012 NASAs Voyager 1 is believed to have reached the transition zone leading to the solar system's outer limit.

Voyager 1, the farthest mankind has sent an object, almost never made it out of earth orbit. Due to an incorrect fuel-oxidiser mix, the centaur upper stage got it to parking orbit with only 3.5 seconds of propellant left.

Voyager 1 & 2 are still phoning home and takes 19 hrs for signals to reach earth. Pretty amazing stuff!

The Voyager 1 is the only spacecraft to reach interstellar space.

There were approximately 40,000 eggs packed onto the ship before it launched for the epic voyage. There were also approximately 1,000 bottles of wine, 75,000 lbs. of fresh meat, 1,000 lbs. of grapes, 36,000lbs of apples and 3,500 lbs. of tomatoes aboard the Titanic when it set off.

Voyager 1 and 2 are carrying sound messages such as a mother kissing her crying baby and visual messages such as mathematical, physical and chemical definitions. All chosen to represent humanity.

The Chuck Berry song "Johnny B. Goode" was included on the golden albums that were sent with the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft

In 1871, a whaling disaster in the Arctic hastened the end of the U.S. whaling industry as ice shipwrecked 33 ships. 1,219 people boarded whaleboats on a 70-mile voyage to rescue ships.

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