Voyager 1

NASA · launched 5 September 1977

Voyager 1 left Earth on 5 September 1977. It passed Jupiter on 5 March 1979 and Saturn on 12 November 1980. The Saturn flyby bent the path north of the ecliptic, and the spacecraft has been climbing away from the plane ever since.

In August 2012 it crossed the heliopause, the first craft to enter interstellar space. There is no arrival and no return. The track is the JPL Horizons ephemeris, one point every five days, from just after launch through 2036.

The marker follows the date on the timeline. Probes today keeps a second marker on the present-day position, well above the ecliptic and far beyond Neptune.

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Made by Laurent Remond