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  4. Voyager 2: Interstellar-By the Numbers

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  1. Voyager program

    A poster of the planets and moons visited during the Voyager program. The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable alignment of the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, to fly near them while collecting data for transmission ...

  2. Voyager

    The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. As originally designed, the Voyagers were to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets. ... The resulting dust and boulder- to house-size particles ...

  3. Voyager 1

    Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2.

  4. Voyager

    The Voyager spacecraft are the third and fourth human spacecraft to fly beyond all the planets in our solar system. Pioneers 10 and 11 preceded Voyager in outstripping the gravitational attraction of the Sun but on February 17, 1998, Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space. ...

  5. Voyager 1: Facts about Earth's farthest spacecraft

    Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to travel beyond the solar system and enter interstellar space. The probe is still exploring the cosmos to this day. ... Size: Voyager 1's body is about the size ...

  6. Voyager 2

    Voyager 2 Artist's rendering of the Voyager spacecraft design Mission type Planetary exploration Operator NASA / JPL COSPAR ID 1977-076A SATCAT no. 10271 Website voyager.jpl.nasa.gov Mission duration 46 years, 11 months, 21 days elapsed Planetary mission: 12 years, 1 month, 12 days Interstellar mission: 34 years, 10 months, 9 days elapsed Spacecraft properties Manufacturer Jet Propulsion ...

  7. Voyager

    The identical Voyager spacecraft are three-axis stabilized systems that use celestial or gyro referenced attitude control to maintain pointing of the high-gain antennas toward Earth. The prime mission science payload consisted of 10 instruments (11 investigations including radio science). INTERACT IN 3D. Take a deeper look at the sophisticated ...

  8. Voyager

    Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun. Voyager 1 reached the interstellar boundary in 2012, while Voyager 2 (traveling slower and in a different direction than its twin) reached it in 2018. Mission Type.

  9. Voyager 2

    Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system's giant planets at close range. Voyager 2 discovered a 14th moon at Jupiter. Voyager 2 was the first human-made object to fly past Uranus. At Uranus, Voyager 2 discovered 10 new moons and two new rings. Voyager 2 was the first human-made object to fly by Neptune.

  10. Voyager, NASA's Longest-Lived Mission, Logs 45 Years in Space

    NASA's twin Voyager probes have become, in some ways, time capsules of their era: They each carry an eight-track tape player for recording data, they have about 3 million times less memory than modern cellphones, and they transmit data about 38,000 times slower than a 5G internet connection.. Yet the Voyagers remain on the cutting edge of space exploration.

  11. Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data

    NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is fully operational for the first time since November 2023, with all four science instruments returning usable data to Earth. ... Newly found star 30 times the size of ...

  12. NASA

    Description. Voyager 1 was one of a pair of spacecraft launched to explore the planets of the outer solar system and the interplanetary environment. Each Voyager had as its major objectives at each planet to: (1) investigate the circulation, dynamics, structure, and composition of the planet's atmosphere; (2) characterize the morphology ...

  13. Voyager Project Information

    The last two spacecraft of NASA's Mariner series, Voyager 1 and 2 were the first in that series to be sent to explore the outer solar system. Preceeded by the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions, Voyager 1 and 2 were to make studies of Jupiter and Saturn, their satellites, and their magnetospheres as well as studies of the interplanetary medium.

  14. Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down

    As it turned out, NASA would build two space vehicles to take advantage of that once-in-more-than-a-lifetime opportunity. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, identical in every detail, were launched within ...

  15. PDF Chapter 3 Voyager Telecommunications

    The Voyager spacecraft were designed and constructed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The flight team, very much reduced in size more than 30 years after the launches, is also located at JPL. 3.1 . Voyager Interstellar Mission Description . The two Voyager spacecraft are continuing on long-term (1977-2025)

  16. Voyager

    Voyager 2 entered interstellar space on November 5, 2018 and scientists hope to learn more about this region. Both spacecraft are still sending scientific information about their surroundings through the Deep Space Network, or DSN. The primary mission was the exploration of Jupiter and Saturn. After making a string of discoveries there — such ...

  17. Images taken by the Voyager 1 Spacecraft

    Size: 2024-04-22: Voyager: 4032x3024x3: PIA26275: Voyager Team Celebrates Engineering Data Return Full Resolution: ... Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space Full Resolution: TIFF (2.766 MB) JPEG (56.6 kB) 2013-07-03: Voyager: 800x600x3: PIA17036: Voyager the Explorer Full ...

  18. Images taken by the Voyager Spacecraft

    Size: 2024-04-22: Voyager: 4032x3024x3: PIA26275: Voyager Team Celebrates Engineering Data Return Full Resolution: ... Voyager 2 Spacecraft Instruments Full Resolution: TIFF (1.717 MB) JPEG (128.5 kB) 2018-12-10: Voyager Interstellar Mission: 1920x1080x3: PIA22835: Two Interstellar ...

  19. Voyager, Still Going After All These Years

    The twin Voyager spacecraft, NASA's oldest, most venerable explorers, are still continuously transmitting data back to Earth. Launched in 1977 to study the large outer planets, Voyager 1 and 2 ...

  20. The Brains of the Voyager Spacecraft: Command, Data, and Attitude

    The CCS would be responsible for commands and memory management of the FDS and AACS, which required the addition of a MEMLOAD routine (to load memory, as implied) and an AACSIN routine for health monitoring of the AACS. Each computer system on the Voyager spacecraft was dual-redundant— there were two CCS', two FDS', and two AACS'.

  21. Voyager

    The Voyager spacecraft revealed the enormous amount of detail in the rings of Saturn, discovered the rings of Jupiter and provided the first detailed images of the rings of Uranus and Neptune. ... It was almost the weight and size of a sub-compact car. The current approximate weight of Voyager 1 is 733 kg and Voyager 2 is 735 kg. The difference ...

  22. Most distant spacecraft from Earth sends data to NASA for first time in

    NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977, about two weeks after the launch of its twin, Voyager 2. The spacecraft has spent over 45 years studying the outer solar system and has made ...

  23. SpaceX refutes reports that its Starship launch pad system polluted

    Andrew first caught the space bug when, as a youngster, he saw Voyager images of other worlds in our solar system for the first time. Away from space, Andrew enjoys trail running in the forests of ...

  24. Photos: The closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics

    After an exciting two and a half weeks of competition, it's time to say "au revoir" to the Paris Olympics.. The closing ceremony took place Sunday at the Stade de France before showing ...

  25. Voyager

    Instrument Status. This is a real-time indicator of Voyagers' distance from Earth in astronomical units (AU) and either miles (mi) or kilometers (km). Note: Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is speeding away from the inner solar system, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of year.

  26. NASA Demonstrates 'Ultra-Cool' Quantum Sensor for First Time in Space

    About the size of a minifridge, the Cold Atom Lab launched to the space station in 2018 with the goal of advancing quantum science by putting a long-term facility in the microgravity environment of low Earth orbit. The lab cools atoms to almost absolute zero, or minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 273 degrees Celsius). At this temperature, some atoms can form a Bose-Einstein condensate, a ...