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Voyager 1

space probe launched by NASA to study the outer Solar System, furthest spacecraft from Earth

6 dated entries naming Voyager 1, drawn from 6 separate years between 1977 CE and 2012 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1977September 5 – Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.source
  • 1979March 4 – The U.S. Voyager 1 spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.source
  • 1980March 1 – The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.source
  • 1990February 14 – The Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission, from around 5.6 billion kilometers (3.5 billion miles) away.source
  • 1998November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU km.source

21st century

  • 2012August 25 – The Voyager 1 space probe becomes the first human-made object to successfully exit the Solar System and enter Interstellar space, and to an extent, becoming the first Interstellar probe, pioneering Interstellar exploration.source

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