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  • The Contents
  • The Making of
  • Where Are They Now
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Q & A with Ed Stone

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Where are they now.

  • frequently asked questions
  • Q&A with Ed Stone

Mission Overview

The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before. Continuing on their more-than-40-year journey since their 1977 launches, they each are much farther away from Earth and the sun than Pluto. In August 2012, Voyager 1 made the historic entry into interstellar space, the region between stars, filled with material ejected by the death of nearby stars millions of years ago. 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 as active volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and intricacies of Saturn's rings — the mission was extended. Voyager 2 went on to explore Uranus and Neptune, and is still the only spacecraft to have visited those outer planets. The adventurers' current mission, the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), will explore the outermost edge of the Sun's domain. And beyond.

This image showcases the dates of planetary encounters for Voyager 1 and 2 with the outer planets in our solar system.

Interstellar Mission

The mission objective of the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is to extend the NASA exploration of the solar system beyond the neighborhood of the outer planets to the outer limits of the Sun's sphere of influence, and possibly beyond.

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Planetary Voyage

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.

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Image of Voyager

Launch: Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977, from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. On September 5, Voyager 1 launched, also from Cape Canaveral aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket.

IMAGES

  1. NASA contacts Voyager 2 probe for the first time since March

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  2. Voyager 2 space probe to spend 11 months in silence

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  3. Why Voyager 2 is the most important Spacecraft that is out there

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  4. Voyager 2’s Discoveries From Interstellar Space

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  5. 40 Years Out, NASA's Twin Voyager Probes Inspire Golden Record Revivals

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  6. Voyager II Probe Passes Neptune Photograph by Mark Garlick/science

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VIDEO

  1. Nasa Voyager 1 And 2 Detected Something Beyond The Edge of Our Solar System

  2. వాయోజర్-2 2000 కోట్ల km నుంచి మన భూమికి signals పంపుతుంది

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  4. NASA has heard the Voyager 2 Spacecraft Crash! [Part 2]

  5. Voyager 1 Might Be Dying! 🥺

  6. Voyager 1 Suddenly Received an ALARMING REPLY From a Nearby Star

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    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. › View more