Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 has become humanity’s most distant spacecraft—still sending data back to Earth decades later with technology far less powerful than a modern calculator. Voyager 1 is over 23 light-hours away from Earth It is the farthest human-made object in space Currently traveling through interstellar space beyond the heliosphere Powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) Runs on a computer with just 69 KB of memory Continues to transmit scientific data back to Earth

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34K views · 808 reactions | Moving a 6,000-pound spacecraft is tricky, like when we maneuvered NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft into JPL's thermal vacuum chamber, where teams simulated the conditions it will experience in space. Up next: Moving the spacecraft from our California clean room to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Facebook