Currently, satellite Voyager 1, the first spacecraft created by humans, has left the Solar System. The distance that the satellite has reached 19 billion kilometers from Earth.
Reported by the BBC page, Saturday, September 14, 2013, Voyager satellite distance is very far from Earth. It takes 17 hours to transmit a radio signal from the Voyager to a receiving station on Earth.
"This is an historic event since the Voyager satellites flown to Space in 40 years ago. Satellites have done the longest journey of exploration around the world for the first time," said Voyager Project Scientist from California Institute of Technology who has been monitoring the Voyager mission since 1972.
Voyager satellites have done some research, ranging from measuring the magnetic field and the particles on the surface of the Sun, to calculate the density of the particles in a few places in space that has been passed by Voyager.
According to Professor Sir Martin Rees, senior astronomer from the UK, Satellite Voyager is the first man-made object that is already out of interstellar space (interstellar space).
"It is a tremendous achievement. Satellite Unexpectedly it has been running very much," said Rees.
Known, Voyager 1 satellite into space diberangkat on 5 September 1977. While its twin, Voyager 2 satellites dispatched several days after Voyager 1 was launched. The main task of the two satellites is to study the planet Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Although the job is complete, but scientists still continue to employ the two satellites was to learn more about how vast space.
"Now, after the Voyager satellites around the space for 40 years, the satellite still see new areas," said Rees.
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