Voyager 2
The only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune.
Voyager 2 is a NASA space probe launched on 20 August 1977, 16 days before its twin Voyager 1. It flew past Jupiter (1979), Saturn (1981), Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989), and is the only spacecraft to have visited either ice giant.
It entered interstellar space on 5 November 2018 at 119.7 AU from the Sun and now studies the interstellar medium, communicating through the Deep Space Network.
Quick Facts
- Mission type
- Planetary exploration
- Operator
- NASA; JPL
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Launch mass
- 721.9 kg / 1,592 lb
- Power
- 470 watts (at launch)
- Launch rocket
- Titan IIIE
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-41
- Programme
- Large Strategic Science Missions, Planetary Science Division
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