News Archive / Tagged: Voyager 1

• New Horizons spacecraft is now 50 AU from the Sun

  Laurel KornfeldApril 22nd, 2021

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft achieved a major milestone on Saturday, April 17, when it reached a distance of 50 AU from the Sun.

• Cosmic ray detection could mean Voyager 2 is close to interstellar space

  Laurel KornfeldOctober 6th, 2018

  Now almost 11 billion miles (17.7 billion km) from Earth, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has detected an increasing amount of cosmic rays that originate beyond our solar system, leading some scientists to believe the probe is on the verge of entering interstellar space.

• New Horizons breaks Voyager 1’s record for most distant images from Earth

  Laurel KornfeldFebruary 10th, 2018

  NASA's New Horizons spacecraft broke yet another record by capturing the most distant images from Earth, photographing an open star cluster along with several dwarf planets, Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) and centaurs with its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI).

• Our SpaceFlight Heritage: Voyager 1 – the Energizer Bunny

  Jason RhianDecember 4th, 2017

  The Energizer Bunny keeps going and going – and so does NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. More to the point, so does the craft's thrusters. Over three-and-a-half decades after they were last fired, the probe's thrusters were successfully fired on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017.