when was it launched?
September 5, 1977
Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a space probe that was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977
three discoveries made by the voyager space probe It photographed the Jovian system, discovered ongoing volcanic activity on the moon Io and about seven percent of the volume of Saturn's upper atmosphere is helium while almost all the rest is hydrogen what is this thing actually? A space probe that was launched by NASA
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Voyager 1 [SEP] Introduction
Voyager 1 is a space probe that was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. Part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System, Voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its twin, "Voyager 2". Having operated for as of , the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data is provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of from Earth as of September 17, 2020, it is the most distant man-made object from Earth. The probe's objectives included flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's largest moon, Titan.