Voyager 2
NASA · launched 1977
Launched 1977. The only craft to visit Uranus and Neptune; in interstellar space since 2018.
Right now · as of
Interstellar space
21.6 billion km (144.4 AU) from Earth; a signal takes 20 h 1 min
21.6 billion km (144.3 AU) from the Sun, moving at 15.3 km/s relative to the Sun
Open in 3DThe flight
August 20, 1977
Launched on Titan IIIE / Centaur from Cape Canaveral SLC-41
July 9, 1979
Flies past Jupiter, 721,021 km away
August 26, 1981
Flies past Saturn, 159,701 km away
January 24, 1986
Flies past Uranus, 102,908 km away
August 25, 1989
Flies past Neptune, 34,574 km away
August 30, 2007
Crosses the termination shock, where the solar wind slows, 83.7 AU from the Sun
November 5, 2018
Crosses the heliopause into interstellar space, 119 AU from the Sun
From the trajectory NASA JPL Horizons publishes for it.
Voyager 2
NASA space probe launched in 1977
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants and enabled further encounters with the ice giants. The only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giant planets, it was the third of five spacecraft to achieve Solar escape velocity, which allowed it to leave the Solar System.
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Facts
- What it is
- Space probe
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- August 20, 1977
- Rocket
- Titan IIIE / Centaur
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SLC-41
- International designator
- 1977-076A
- 3D model
- NASA/Michael D. Carbajal