{"id":22766,"date":"2026-01-16T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22766"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:36:57","slug":"voyager-1-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/voyager-1-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Voyager 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Voyager 1 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voyager 1 is expected to become the first human-made object to reach a distance of one light-day from Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Voyager 1<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a space probe launched by <\/span><b>NASA in 1977.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To explore the <\/span><b>outer planets in our solar system.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and reach interstellar space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is currently the <\/span><b>most distant human-made object<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from Earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voyager 1\u2019s mission has included <\/span><b>flybys of Jupiter and Saturn<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with the goal of studying their moons, rings, and magnetic fields.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Instruments of Voyager 1:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Cosmic Ray Subsystem, Plasma Wave Subsystem, Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer and Radiometer (IRIS) etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Key Achievements of Voyager 1<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the first <\/span><b>spacecraft to cross the heliosphere,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the boundary where the influences outside our solar system are stronger than those from our Sun.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>crossed into interstellar space<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in August 2012, making it the first human-made object to venture out of the solar system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>discovered a thin ring around Jupiter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and two new <\/span><b>Jovian moons: Thebe and Metis.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>It also found <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">five new moons and a <\/span><b>new ring called the G-ring at Saturn.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/science\/news\/nasas-voyager-1-heads-toward-one-light-day-distance-from-earth-11768396593044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA in 1977. 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