What Is Voyager 1?

A manned spacecraft means a spacecraft that has crew members onboard, it needs people to function and steer the spacecraft. The Voyager 1 is an unmanned spacecraft. This means that no people need to be in the spacecraft whilst it is in space. NASA made Voyager 1 unmanned, so that it could travel faster and for a long period of time. They also didn't want any distractions other than what the celestial body looked like in a spacecraft's point of view. Voyager 1 travels at roughly 17.5km/s, and any unnecessary weight on the craft would cause it to break. Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on the 5 September 1977. It was launched, 16 days after its twin Voyager 2. It has been on its mission for 39 years! It costed NASA $250 000 000 to
It was manufactured by Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It weighs 825,5 Kg in total. Voyager 1 was launched at the Cape Canaveral, in Florida. Its power is 420 watts! Its rocket is called Titan IIIE Voyager 1 was launched to investigate Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 completed this mission and is now traveling and investigating further into space. The mission was extended 3 times, because Voyager 1 was only supposed to investigate Jupiter and Saturn but then continued to investigate other planets like Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 and 2 are currently studying the outer heliosphere. The heliosphere is, according to Google, the region of space, surrounding the solar system which has significant winds. Voyager 1 came the closest any space probe has ever been to Jupiter on March 5 1979. The images that came back from Voyager 1 were the best photographs any satellite or spacecraft had taken. It took over 19 000 pictures of each planet in high resolution. Voyager 1 found that 7% of Saturn’s atmosphere is made up of helium but the rest is made completely of hydrogen Voyager found that Uranus has a largely unusual magnetic field, and has discovered 2 new rings on