The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

Voyager 1 is almost 13 billion miles away ... the imaging scientists can create accurate visual color photos from the black and white camera. The UVS is a specialized ultraviolet light meter.

Three days after Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter, mission controllers took pictures of Jupiter's moons to help determine the spacecraft's exact location. This process is known as ...