The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had launched the spacecraft, which it called “Voyager“, in 1977. The probes known as Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are very, very far from Earth today. In fact, we can call it the object that humanity made for the Voyager probes and is the farthest from Earth.
But the Voyager probes are at the end of the road.
The first mission of the probes, launched in 1977, was to fly around Saturn and Jupiter and collect information about these planets. The probes, which completed this mission a few years after launch, were also sent deep into space in the later process.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have moved so far apart over the years that they have even moved outside the Solar System. NASA announced in 1998 that Voyager 1 was the most distant man-made object in space. On the day of this announcement, Voyager 1 was 10.46 billion kilometers from Earth.
You may have wondered how a spacecraft has been working continuously for 45 years and how it can get out of the Solar System.
NASA engineers supplied these probes with energy from radioactive plutonium. Voyager space probes, which consume 4 watts of energy per year, have become unable to provide energy. And when that happened, NASA decided to de-energize the probes. Engineers will continue to use the probes until 2030 with the energy savings they will make. Only if everything goes well…
NASA has created a website for Voyager probes. When we look at the information on this website; we see that the distance of Voyager 1 from the Earth is 23 billion 327 million 229 thousand 514 kilometers. The distance of Voyager 2 from the Earth is 19 billion 413 million 229 thousand 500 kilometers. With its latest decision, NASA will have reached the maximum distance at which the probes will be able to reach the summit.
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