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  2. Voyager 1 - Wikipedia

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    Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant spacecraft from the Sun, at 69.419 AU. Voyager 1 is moving away from the Sun at over 1 AU per year faster than Pioneer 10. 2004-12-17 Passed the termination shock at 94 AU and entered the heliosheath. 2007-02-02 Terminated plasma subsystem operations. 2007-04-11 Terminated plasma subsystem heater.

  3. Inside NASA's 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in ...

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    A Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle carries NASA's Voyager 1 at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 5, 1977. (NASA) The team eventually determined that the issue stemmed from one of the spacecraft’s ...

  4. Voyager 1 overcomes its latest challenge to keep operating ...

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    Voyager 1 has been using the X-band transmitter for decades, but the S-band hadn’t been employed since 1981 because its signal is much fainter than the X-band’s. The team had to seek out the ...

  5. Interstellar Voyager 1 resumes operations after pause in ...

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    Voyager 1 had not used the S-band to communicate with Earth since 1981. Nasa Publishes Never-before-seen Photos Of ‘Ravioli’ Moon Orbiting Saturn. Voyager 1′s odyssey began in 1977, when the ...

  6. Voyager program - Wikipedia

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    Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, but along a shorter and faster trajectory that was designed to provide an optimal flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, [21] which was known to be quite large and to possess a dense atmosphere. This encounter sent Voyager 1 out of the plane of the ecliptic, ending its planetary science mission. [22]

  7. List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    Launch escape system fired 27 minutes after an aborted launch causing a fire and subsequent explosion when pad workers had already returned to the launch pad. [102] 14 July 1968: Baikonur Cosmodrome, USSR: 1: Soyuz 7K-L1 launch vehicle: Soyuz 7K-L1 No. 8L: An oxygen tank in the Blok D stage exploded while the rocket was being prepared for ...

  8. The 47-year-old Voyager probes are exploring interstellar ...

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    Voyager 1, at 15.5 billion miles away (24.9 billion kilometers), is the farthest human-made object from Earth. ... must wait until April 2026 at the earliest for launch.

  9. Grand Tour program - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, by launching Voyager 2 first, Voyager 1's launch could be re-targeted to perform the Grand Tour if Voyager 2 were lost in a launch failure. [ 6 ] : 155 An option to skip Voyager 1 's Titan flyby and proceed from Saturn to Pluto was identified, though Titan was still considered the more interesting target, especially after images ...