Voyager 1 in 3D: live position and trajectory

Launched in 1977, the most distant human-made object, now in interstellar space.The real position of Voyager 1 is shown, from the trajectory computed by NASA JPL Horizons. The view opens on Voyager 1; you can travel in time, follow its route and compare it with the planets.

Mass

721.9 kg¹

Launch date

September 5, 1977¹

Launch vehicle

Titan IIIE-Centaur¹

Launch site

Cape Canaveral, United States¹

Trajectory: JPL Horizons, precomputed from September 6, 1977 to December 31, 2099.Instruments

Cosmic Ray Subsystem for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.crs

Fluxgate Magnetometer for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.mag

Imaging Science Subsystem - Narrow Angle for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.issn

Imaging Science Subsystem - Wide Angle for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.issw

Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer and Radiometer for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.iris

Low Energy Charged Particle for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.lecp

Planetary Radio Astronomy Receiver for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.pra

Plasma Science Experiment for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.pls

Plasma Wave Receiver for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.pws

Radio Science Subsystem for Voyager 1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.rss

Ultraviolet Spectrometer for VG1
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.uvs

Voyager 1 Spacecraft Sensors
urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg1.eng

Investigations it appears in

Voyager

What the PDS archive declares this spacecraft carries, read on September 30, 2026. Each name is the one the archive publishes, and the identifier below it is its citation.Sources

NASA NSSDCA, Master Catalog. read 2026-09-20. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/

3D Solar System

Galaxy

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Display settings

In the scene

A column header sets the whole column, a group row its group, a row one object. Spacecraft and interstellar objects start hidden.

What the scene shows, object by object
Object	Label	Object	Orbit

Asteroid and comet field

Drawn in Exploration mode, one dot per known orbit.

Rendering

Accessibility and units

Offline use

Download every ephemeris file so the app can place the bodies at any date without a network. Nothing is downloaded until you ask.

Navigation

Drag orbit the view
Scroll · pinch zoom in / out
Click a body or its label to travel to it
Educ · Explo compressed overview vs true-scale voyage
Clock · date scroll to time-travel, tap to pick

Textures: USGS Astrogeology / NASA-JPL (public domain) · Solar System Scope (CC BY 4.0) · NOAA ETOPO 2022 · Halley: Philip Stooke / NASA PDS.
Illustrative surfaces: Bodies never mapped globally have an illustrative texture, not a scientific map; the body card says so, and Sources lists them.
3D shape models: NASA PDS: NEAR (Eros), Hayabusa (Itokawa), Galileo (Ida) · ISAS/JAXA: Hayabusa2 (Ryugu) · NASA/Goddard SVS: OSIRIS-REx (Bennu)
Data: Astronomy Engine · NASA/JPL Horizons · JPL SBDB · NASA GIBS · NASA Planetary Data System (mission context products) · IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature · Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0) · ERA5, Copernicus Climate Change Service (ECMWF)