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15/08/2006 Voyager 1 reaches a distance of 100 astronomical units from the Sun

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Voyager 1 Took a Family Portrait of Our Solar System

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Voyager at 40: Keep Reaching for the Stars

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A Brief History of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

One astronomical is roughly equal the average distance of Earth from the Sun, approximately 150 million kilometres. This equals to the average speed of 24.57 kilometres per second, which is around eighty percent of Earth’s orbital speed. As of June 2018, Voyager 1 is the spacecraft most distant from Earth.