The\u00a0Airplane Mode YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0has created a simulation of the Voyager 1 satellite\u2019s speed if it were on Earth, and, as you can see from the clip above, it\u2019s scary fast.<\/p>\n DISCOVER SBX CARS:\u00a0The global premium car auction platform powered by Supercar Blondie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Voyager 1 is nearly 50 years old \u2013 and its speed is out of this world<\/p>\n Voyager 1<\/a> was launched in 1977, making it one of the oldest active space probes.<\/p>\n The idea was to study the outer Solar System and, so far, it\u2019s been working a treat.<\/p>\n Voyager 1 has already flown by Jupiter<\/a> and Saturn, and it\u2019s also flown past Saturn\u2019s largest moon, Titan.<\/p>\n NASA isn\u2019t exactly sure how much longer Voyager 1 is going to survive, but they do know that after 2036, the probe will almost certainly be out of range of the Deep Space Network.<\/p>\n In other words, it\u2019ll still be out there, but we probably won\u2019t be able to communicate with it.<\/p>\n Click the star icon next to supercarblondie.com in\u00a0Google Search<\/a>\u00a0to stay ahead of the curve on the latest and greatest supercars, hypercars, and ground-breaking technology<\/strong><\/p>\n The reason why NASA launched both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in the same year<\/p>\n In the 1960s, at the peak of the Space Race<\/a>, NASA realized that the 1970s would provide a unique opportunity to launch two space probes that could be expected to travel past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in \u2018one go.\u2019<\/p>\n This phenomenon has a strange name in astronomy.<\/p>\n It\u2019s called Syzygy, and it occurs when three or more celestial bodies are located roughly in a straight-line configuration in a gravitation system.<\/p>\n It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and NASA seized it by launching two twin space probes.<\/p>\n Interestingly, Voyager 1 was actually launched after Voyager 2, and it traveled much further.<\/p>\n As of February 2026, Voyager 1 is approximately 2.5 billion miles further away from Earth than Voyager 2.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t# Tags – \t\t\t\t![\"The\u00a0Voyager](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Voyager-1-satellite-is-one-of-the-fastest-human-made-object-from-Earth-and-by-a-considerable-mar.webp\")
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\nSpace<\/a>, Voyager 1<\/a><\/p>\n