Earth & Space

Voyager: The Cosmic Slingshot

Name: Voyager: The Cosmic Slingshot
Duration: 171 s
Description: Two tiny 1970s probes flew past the giant planets and stole a kick from each one's gravity — flinging themselves to the edge of the solar system and coasting for fifty years on almost no fuel, which is used only to keep their antennas aimed at Earth.

Two tiny 1970s probes flew past the giant planets and stole a kick from each one's gravity — flinging themselves to the edge of the solar system and coasting for fifty years on almost no fuel, which is used only to keep their antennas aimed at Earth.

Voyager — Farthest From Home

TWO PROBES · LAUNCHED 1977

Two tiny probes, launched in 1977, are now the most distant machines humans have ever made.

Two tiny probes, launched in 1977, are now the farthest human-made objects in existence.

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