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◆ 1 Light-Day From Earth in --Nov 18, 2026

Humanity's Farthest Reach

Launched September 5, 1977 | Mission: Active
Now traveling through interstellar space

Voyager 1 Spacecraft — Public Domain Rendering

◆ NASA Voyager Program — Mission Elapsed: --

■ Current Distance from Earth

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Data sourced from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech) Horizons System

Distance — Kilometers

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kilometers from Earth

Astronomical Units

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1 AU = 93 million miles

Light-Travel Time

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light takes to reach Earth from craft

Distance Traveled Today

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miles since 00:00 UTC · resets midnight

Current Speed

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speed slowly decreasing — solar gravity still acts at this distance

Signal Delay — 1-Way

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radio signal travel time to Earth

vs. Solar Escape Velocity

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× local escape velocity

Time Dilation

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sec Voyager clock lags Earth

RTG Power Output

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0 W (depleted) · — · 470 W at launch

Nearest Star (excl. Sun)

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AC+79 3888 — trillion km remaining

Sun Apparent Magnitude

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from Voyager · full moon ≈ −12.7

Pu‑238 Nuclear Fuel

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0% (depleted) half-life: 87.7 yr 100% at launch

● Looking for the Voyager 1 live camera?

There isn’t one — and there never really was. Voyager 1 carries no outward-facing camera aimed back at itself, and the cameras it used to photograph the planets were switched off in 1990 to save power for the long haul — right after it turned around to take the famous Pale Blue Dot photo of Earth. So there is no live video feed from the spacecraft itself.

What is live are the real-time numbers on this page — distance, speed, and signal delay, all computed from NASA/JPL tracking data. And if you want a genuinely live look at space right now, NASA’s SOHO LASCO C3 camera streams the Sun around the clock.
◉ Watch the Sun live →

The Pale Blue Dot — Earth as a tiny bluish speck within a sunbeam, the last photograph Voyager 1 ever took, 1990 — The last photo Voyager 1 ever took — the “Pale Blue Dot,” Feb 14, 1990. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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■ Mission Milestones

◆ Key Events in the Mission

✓ Sept 5, 1977 Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida

✓ March 5, 1979 Jupiter flyby — closest approach at 349,000 km

✓ Nov 12, 1980 Saturn flyby — closest approach, Titan study

✓ Feb 14, 1990 "Pale Blue Dot" photograph of Earth taken at 6 billion km

✓ Feb 17, 1998 Overtook Pioneer 10 as most distant human-made object

✓ Aug 25, 2012 Entered interstellar space — crossed the heliopause

▶ Now Deep interstellar space — the farthest object ever built by man

○ Nov 2026 Craft will reach 1 light-day from Earth

○ Year ~40,000 Will pass within 1.7 light-years of star AC+79 3888

So Where Is Voyager 1?

A simplified top-down view of the solar system. Distances beyond Neptune are compressed so everything fits on one screen — in reality Voyager 1 is more than 170× farther from the Sun than Earth, and over five times past Neptune, the most distant planet.

Deep Tracking Data Available

Full ephemeris • Sky charts • 3D orbit visualization • Real-time coordinates

LIVE TRACKING → TheSkyLive.com

About Voyager 1

Artist's concept of Voyager 1 in interstellar space

Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in existence. Launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, it was originally designed for a five-year mission to study Jupiter and Saturn. Nearly five decades later, it is still operating — now traveling through interstellar space at roughly 17 kilometers per second, more than 25 billion kilometers from Earth. No spacecraft in history has ever ventured this far.

On August 25, 2012, Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause — the boundary where the Sun's solar wind gives way to the interstellar medium — becoming the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. Its twin, Voyager 2, followed in November 2018. Together they represent humanity's only direct sampling of the environment beyond our solar system.

The spacecraft carries a golden phonograph record — known as the Golden Record — containing sounds, music, and images representing life on Earth, intended as a message to any civilization that might one day encounter it. In 2023, Voyager 1 made global headlines when it began transmitting garbled data due to a failing memory chip. NASA engineers devised a remarkable software fix transmitted across 24 billion kilometers of space, restoring full communications in April 2024.

FAQ → Mission Timeline → By the Numbers → Golden Record → Photos → About → NASA

Voyager 1 Instrument Status

To stretch its dwindling nuclear power, NASA has switched off most of Voyager 1's instruments over the decades. Only two are still returning science from interstellar space today.

Instrument	Voyager 1 Status
MAGMagnetometer	On
PWSPlasma Wave Subsystem	On
CRSCosmic Ray Subsystem	Off — power saving (Feb 25, 2025)
LECPLow-Energy Charged Particles	Off — power saving (Apr 17, 2026)
PLSPlasma Science	Off — degraded performance (Feb 1, 2007)
ISSImaging cameras	Off — power saving (Feb 14, 1990)
IRISInfrared Spectrometer & Radiometer	Off — power saving (Jun 3, 1998)
PPSPhotopolarimeter Subsystem	Off — degraded performance (Jan 29, 1980)
PRAPlanetary Radio Astronomy	Off — power saving (Jan 15, 2008)
UVSUltraviolet Spectrometer	Off — power saving (Apr 19, 2016)

Source: NASA/JPL — Voyager mission status, updated April 2026.