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What is a spacecraft 23 billion kilometers from Earth doing?
The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to explore the universe 45 years after launching from Earth and 22 light hours away from the planet.
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NASA's Farthest Flying Spacecraft Is Dying
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, nearly 25 billion kilometers from Earth, continues to experience problems as its power supply on board gradually runs out.
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Could a planet so close to Earth be full of swimming fish?
One of NASA's spacecraft may have flown past a planet-moon system teeming with life without knowing it.
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NASA shuts down plasma device to save spacecraft 20.5 billion kilometers away
NASA engineers shut down one of Voyager 2's key scientific instruments to extend the spacecraft's life as its power supply dwindles.
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NASA's fight to save a spacecraft 24 billion kilometers away
For about 5 months, experts tried every way to fix the error and restore communication for Voyager 1, a ship that had been operating for nearly half a century.
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Voyager 2 leaves the Solar System, enters the interstellar realm
Voyager 2 spacecraft left Earth in 1977, until December 10, 2018, it officially left the Solar System, about 18 billion km from our planet.
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Special points of Uranus
Uranus has a self-rotating axis that is almost parallel to the orbital plane and moves very slowly around the Sun.
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Drop into strange areas, American spacecraft constantly inspired
A series of strong strikes in the universe attacked an American spacecraft after it became the first human species to exit the solar system.
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Voyager 1 was out of the solar system
US scientists on September 12 confirmed NASA's Voyager 1 probe was out of the solar system, marking the first time a human spacecraft has gone so far.
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Voyager's controversy
The US Air and Space Administration's Voyager spacecraft entered the interplanetary space last year, becoming the first artificial object to leave the solar system.
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NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft comes to the edge of the solar system
On June 27, NASA announced that the Voyager 1 spacecraft flew to the outer edge of the solar system and will operate here for months, even years.
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The American spacecraft exits the solar system
Scientists' statement appeared in an article in Geophysical Research Letters. According to the article, Voyager 1 is more than 18 billion kilometers from Earth.
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The American airship is about to fly out of the solar system
Voyager 1 was launched by the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) in 1977 with Voyager 2 to explore the stars Thien Vuong, Hai Vuong, Moc and Tho.
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Voyager 1: The spacecraft is farthest away from Earth
The US Voyager 1 satellite has just reached a record distance of 100 astronomical units (AU) and becomes the space device most emitted by humans from Earth.
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Video: NASA probe ships out of the solar system after a 40-year journey
The Voyager 2 spacecraft is an interplanetary unmanned spacecraft launched on August 20, 1977