Farthest Space Probe
Voyager 1 encountered saturn in november 1980 with the closest approach on november 12 1980 when the space probe came within 124000 kilometers 77000 mi of saturns cloud tops.
Farthest space probe. Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space. Geek out with me further by becoming an official sp. These are the five farthest space probes that freckle our solar system that are still active for now. New horizons is the probe that flew by pluto on july 14 2015 and beamed back those.
It originally was launched along with voyager 2 in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system.