
The
Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,592
lb)
space probe launched by
NASA on September 5, 1977, to study the outer
Solar System and eventually interstellar space. Operating for 34 years as of today, the spacecraft receives routine commands and transmits data back to the
Deep Space Network. It will be the first probe to leave the Solar System and is the farthest man made object from
Earth.
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