After 42 years, the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft are still flying! To keep them going, engineers must manage these vintage robots carefully as less power is available over time. Recently, our team turned off a heater for Voyager 2’s instrument that detects fast-moving cosmic ray particles. Despite dropping to a chilly -74°F, Voyager 2’s cosmic ray instrument is still returning data. Learn more about how we keep our oldest explorers going: https://go.nasa.gov/2NW576P | NASA - National Aeronautics and

Voyager 1 & 2 UPDATE-Where Are They?+ Brief Mission Recap (Short Version)

Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached interstellar space and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos. Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and reach interstellar space. The probe launched on Sept. 5, 1977 — about two weeks after its twin Voyager 2 — and as of August 2022 is approximately 14.6 billion miles (23.5 billion kilometers) away from our planet, making it Earth's farthest spacecraft. Voyager 1 is currently zipping through space at arou

We created this animation in two parts to show the incredible journeys of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, the farthest objects humanity has ever sent into space. In the first part, we follow Voyager 1 as it launches from Earth in 1977, uses gravity assists to swing past Jupiter and Saturn, and slingshots its way toward interstellar space. In the second part, we track Voyager 2, which also launched in 1977 and took a different route—visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—thanks to a rare planetar