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A ship named Voyager is seen docked at Beyel Brothers pier at the Port of Fort Pierce on Wednesday, Sept 4, 2024. The ship holds the prototype sphere Neptune from Space Perspective that will ferry ...
A cancelled mission concept in the New Frontiers program, a flyby mission to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune (with Triton) and the Kuiper belt with launch in 2019. cancelled New Horizons 2: NASA: flyby A cancelled mission concept for a flyby mission to the Neptune system and Kuiper belt based on the New Horizons space probe. cancelled Nautilus ...
The Voyager primary mission was completed in 1989, with the close flyby of Neptune by Voyager 2. The Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is a mission extension, which began when the two spacecraft had already been in flight for over 12 years. [ 50 ]
Voyager 2 was also to explore Jupiter and Saturn, but on a trajectory that would have the option of continuing on to Uranus and Neptune, or being redirected to Titan as a backup for Voyager 1. Upon successful completion of Voyager 1's objectives, Voyager 2 would get a mission extension to send the probe on towards Uranus and Neptune. [13]
The revelations will be helpful for missions that may be planned to explore Uranus and Neptune more closely in the future, a priority for astronomers since the ice planets were only observed in ...
6 April 1973 [2] Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1A [3] NASA: Flyby Successful [6] Closest approach towards Jupiter at 05:22 UTC on 3 December 1974. Flew by Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Europa . First probe to reach Saturnian system. Final contact was roughly at a distance of 6.5 billion km (43 AU; 4.0 billion mi) [7] 3 Voyager 2: Voyager 2: 20 August 1977 [2]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has provided an image of Neptune that shows the planet's rings — the clearest view in more than 30 years.
Voyager 2 is the only space probe to have visited the Neptune system, completing a flyby on August 25, 1989. An orbiter to Neptune was considered as part of the aborted Mariner Mark II program in the 1990s, and several mission concepts for an orbiter were developed in the 2000s, including a concept by the California Institute of Technology [4] and a version by the University of Idaho and ...