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Trajectories of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The Grand Tour is a NASA program that would have sent two groups of robotic probes to all the planets of the outer Solar System.It called for four spacecraft, two of which would visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto, while the other two would visit Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.
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 planetary alignment to explore the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and potentially also the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune - to fly near them while collecting data for ...
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, ... just a little short of Saturn's orbit of 9.5 AU (880 million mi; 1.42 billion km).
When Voyager 1 lifted off to space on September 5, 1977, no one expected that the probe would still be operating today. ... flew by planets such as Jupiter and Saturn in 1979 and 1980 ...
An enduring mystique surrounds the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. ... Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. More than 47 years later, both spacecraft are still exploring the uncharted territory of interstellar ...
But it’s just one of many challenges the mission team has had to face in recent years as Voyager 1, and its twin probe, Voyager 2, continue to defy the odds and explore space more than 47 years ...
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 .
The probes, which continue to travel billions of miles away, have both reached interstellar space – Voyager 1 in 2012 and Voyager 2 in 2018, according to NA S A.