A robotic space probe launched by NASA in August 1977, sixteen days before its twin Voyager 1. It remains the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune, and in 2018 became the second human-made object to enter interstellar space.
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Spacecraft Type ManufacturerNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) 3 StatusOperational; transmitting from interstellar space as of the mid-2020s. 2 Status
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Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Source Voyager 2, NASA Science
Made the only close flyby of Neptune, in August 1989.
Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Source Voyager 2, NASA Science
Made the only close flyby of Uranus, in January 1986.
Source NASA Solar System Exploration
Source NASA History Office
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1. Voyager 2 (Wikipedia)
- Voyager 2 has left the Sun's heliosphere and is traveling through the interstellar medium...providing the first direct measurements
- In Group: Outer Solar System and Giant Planet Probes, 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 (Jupiter and Saturn) and enabled further e
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3. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
Wikimedia FoundationVoyager 2, Wikipedia - spacecraft design section
Constructed by the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Voyager 2, Background section
the mission was scaled back and replaced with two Mariner program-derived spacecraft, the Mariner Jupiter-Saturn probes
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration- Associated With: Uranus
- Associated With: Neptune
Associated With: Europa, Europa page, Exploring Europa section, Voyager flybys sentence
Europa was first observed up close during the Jupiter flybys of Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.
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Associated With: Jupiter, Voyager 2 at Jupiter section
closest encounter to Jupiter was at 22:29 UT July 9, 1979, at a range of about 400,785 miles (645,000 kilometers).
Associated With: Saturn, Voyager 2 at Saturn section
The closest encounter to Saturn was at 01:21 UT Aug. 26, 1981, at a range of about 63,000 miles (101,000 kilometers).
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