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After 50 years in space, Voyager 1 becomes the first human-made object to travel one full light-day from Earth

In November 2026, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will become the first human-made object to travel a full light-day from Earth.
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NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...
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Farthest spacecraft from Earth shuts down instrument to save power

Voyager 1, NASA's space probe that is the farthest human-made object from Earth, shut down another science instrument as ...

NASA turns off Voyager 1 instrument to prolong iconic probe's life

NASA has shut down a science instrument on Voyager 1 to extend the aging space probe's life as it ventures nearly 16 billion ...
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The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off

This week, NASA announced it had shut down one of that spacecraft's remaining science instruments — not because the mission has failed, but to keep it alive a little longer.
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Nearly 50 years later, NASA still communicates with Voyager 1 probe

KTALnews.com (KTAL/KMSS) – Originally launched in 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 is currently about 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it the farthest human-made object (that we know of) in the universe ...