On the 5th of September 1977 the NASA satellite space probe, Voyager 1 began its voyage into deeper space. Its mission? For both NASA and humanity to explore the greater depths of our solar system and the reaches of outer space. Voyager 1 is currently the furthest man-made object from earth at an estimated 14,793,615,768 miles away from the Earth and has been travelling for over 45 years. Despite this it only takes light 22 hours, 2 minutes and 54.4520 seconds to reach Earth from the Voyager 1 spacecraft. The satellite will be the first man made object to reach interstellar space. Scientists believe that the Voyager will eventually reach the inner edge of the Oort cloud in 300 years.

As well as the Pioneer’s original discoveries Voyager 1 discovered faint rings around Jupiter when it reached the atmosphere of the gas giant in March of 1979. It also discovered two of the Jovian moons, Thebe and Metis. Voyager 1 has travelled past, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. The satellite is thought to continue its communication with Earth until the year 2036, when the communication features on the probe will eventually become untethered from Earth and will continue to float through space for eternity. The Voyager 1 satellite probe uses each planets orbit to propel it to the next and helping it to continue at a rough average speed of 39,000mph. This means that it is the fastest man made object spacecraft in space.

The future of this spacecraft is unknown, and many more discoveries are to be made by the satelite, some even being in the lifetimes of younger generations, however this is only until NASA eventually lose contact with the craft all together.