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On February 17, 1998, Voyager 1 reached a distance of 69 AU (6.4 billion mi; 10.3 billion km) from the Sun and overtook Pioneer 10 as the most distant spacecraft from Earth. [48] [49] Traveling at about 17 km/s (11 mi/s), it has the fastest heliocentric recession speed of any spacecraft.
Given Voyager 1’s immense distance from Earth, it takes a radio signal about 22.5 hours to reach the probe, and another 22.5 hours for a response signal from the spacecraft to reach Earth.
As of 2023, Voyager 1 is moving with a velocity of 61,198 kilometers per hour (38,027 mph), or 17 km/s, relative to the Sun, and is 24,211,500,000 kilometers (1.50443 × 10 10 mi) from the Sun reaching a distance of 161.844 AU (24.2 billion km; 15.0 billion mi) from Earth as of November 25, 2023.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers ( 3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU ), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System . In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the ...
Voyager 1, seen in an artist's rendering, is the farthest human-made object from Earth, some 15 billion miles away. ... A long-distance repair wasn’t possible. There wasn’t enough space ...
For one, engineers were trying to troubleshoot a spacecraft traveling in interstellar space, more than 15 billion miles away — the ultimate long-distance call. “With Voyager 1, it takes 22 1/2 ...
The Family Portrait of the Solar System taken by Voyager 1. The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background ...
Voyager-1 departed Earth on 5 September 1977, a few days after its sister spacecraft, Voyager-2. The pair's primary objective was to survey the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - a task ...