Out there. Voyager I is at the edge of interstellar space, having been launched back in 1977. It's about 125AU out now, and it's still working, sending back measurements of the outer boundary of our sun's influence. It will travel forever at its current speed and direction, unless it hits something, which is incredibly unlikely.
Voyager 1 and 2 visited the outer planets and went on into interstellar space.
Voyager 1 was launched on the 5th of September 1977 and Voyager 2 was launched before voyager 1 on the 20th of August 1977.
That kind of depends on where you consider the boundary of "the solar system" to be. It's currently in the "heliosheath" and will probably reach the heliopause... which is one reasonable definition of "outside the solar system"... within the next ten years or so. Voyager 1, which is further away and moving faster, is expected to reach this boundary in about 2015, but Voyager 2 reached the heliosheath significantly closer to the Sun than Voyager 1 did... this boundary appears to be "dented" in the direction that Voyager 2 is heading. Voyager 2 is well outside what most non-scientists think of as "the solar system" already... it's over twice as far from the Sun as Pluto is, for example.
Voyager 1 arrived in November 1980 and Voyager 2 in August 1981.
As of December '08 Voyager 1 is about 10 billion miles from Earth
The Voyager probes 1 and 2, both launched in 1977, visited Jupiter and Saturn before heading into deep space. Voyager 2 also visited Uranus and Neptune.
Voyager 1 and 2
Heading towards interstellar space. Where no man has gone before.
Voyager 1 and 2 visited the outer planets and went on into interstellar space.
Voyager 1 and 2 visited the outer planets and went on into interstellar space.
Voyager 1 was launched on the 5th of September 1977 and Voyager 2 was launched before voyager 1 on the 20th of August 1977.
Voyager I & II
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There are two Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 2 was launched on August 20 1977. Voyager 1, despite its no.1 ranking, was launched second on September 5 1977.
That kind of depends on where you consider the boundary of "the solar system" to be. It's currently in the "heliosheath" and will probably reach the heliopause... which is one reasonable definition of "outside the solar system"... within the next ten years or so. Voyager 1, which is further away and moving faster, is expected to reach this boundary in about 2015, but Voyager 2 reached the heliosheath significantly closer to the Sun than Voyager 1 did... this boundary appears to be "dented" in the direction that Voyager 2 is heading. Voyager 2 is well outside what most non-scientists think of as "the solar system" already... it's over twice as far from the Sun as Pluto is, for example.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and Cassini.