Three months and five days after the launch, x93Voyager 1x94 entered the asteroid belt, the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. After nine days, x93Voyager 1x94 overtakes the x93Voyager 2x94 spacecraft, a 722-kilogram (1,592 lbs) space probe launched by NASA on August 20 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. More than a year after, on September 8, 1978, x93Voyager 1x94 PVC Door Sweep Manufacturers exited the asteroid belt. On the sixth of January 1979, the observation phase on Jupiter started. On March 5, the encounter with the Jovian system commenced. Jupiter, the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System, has 66 confirmed moons, giving it the largest retinue of moons with x93reasonably securex94 orbits of any planet in the Solar System.
Amalthea, the third moon of Jupiter in order of distance from the planet flew by at 420,200 km (6:54 am). At 12:05:25 pm, x93Voyager 1x94 had its closest approach with Jupiter at 348,890 km from the center of mass. On 3:14 pm, Io, the iermost of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 km (2,263 mi), the fourth largest moon in the Solar System flew by at 20,570 km. Europa (x93Jupiter IIx94), the sixth closest moon of Jupiter and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites, but still one of the largest bodies in the Solar System, also flew by at 733,760 km. The next day, at 2:15 am, Ganymede (x93Jupiter IIIx94), a satellite of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System flew by at 114,710 km. Callisto (x93Jupiter IVx94), another Jovian moon, flew by at 126,400 km (5:08 pm). Then there was a phase stop more than a month later, April 13. The next day, at 1:43:12 am, Mimas, a moon of Satu which was discovered in 1789 by William Herschel, flew by at 88,440 km. Seven minutes after, Enceladus, the sixth largest of the moons of Satu, flew by at 202,040 km. At 6:21:53 am, Rhea, the second largest moon of Satu and the ninth largest moon in the Solar System, flew by at 73,980 km. At 880,440 km, Hyperion, also known as x93Satu VII,x94 another moon of Satu, discovered by William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond and William Lassell in 1848, flew by x93Voyager 1,x94 4:44:41 pm. The next day is another phase stop.On August 22, 1980, the Satu observation started. The first encounter with the Satuian system was on November 12 that year. The moons of Satu, the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter, are numerous and diverse, ranging from tiny moonlets less than 1 km across, to the enormous Titan,
which is larger than the planet Mercury. On that day, Titan (Satu VI), the largest moon of Satu, flew by at 6,490 km, 5:41:21 am. Tethys or x93Satu III,x94 a mid-sized moon of Satu, about 1,060 km (660 mi) across, flew by at 415,670 km, 10:16:32 pm. More than an hour later, at 11:46:30 pm, x93Voyager 1x94 had its closest approach to Satu at 184,300 km from the center of mass. The Voyager Interstellar Mission began on December 14 that year.