Voyager 1 and 2 were designed to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment to study the outer solar system up close.
Voyager 2 satellite.
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Part of the voyager program to study the outer solar system voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its twin voyager 2 having operated for 43 years and 22 days as of september 28 2020 the spacecraft still communicates with the deep space network to receive routine commands and to transmit data to earth.
Voyager 2 which was launched way back in 1977 is billions of miles from earth meaning that commands issued from nasa take a while to arrive at their destination.
Both voyager 1 and voyager 2 have reached interstellar space and each continue their unique journey through the universe.
The agency has been able to keep voyager 2 the satellite launched in 1977 running by using its trajectory correction maneuver thrusters to control.
20 1977 and voyager 1 launched about two weeks later on sept.
This is a real time indicator of voyager 2 s distance from earth in astronomical units au and either miles mi or kilometers km.
Voyager 2 crs data full resolution.
Voyager 2 is only the second spacecraft to travel this far out into the solar system.
Nasa s longest running mission will continue on.
10 2018 the spacecraft joined its twin voyager 1 as the only human made objects to enter the space between the stars.
Since then the spacecraft have been traveling along different flight paths and at different speeds.
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In the nasa eyes on the solar system app you can see the real spacecraft trajectories of the voyagers which are updated every five minutes.
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Nasa s voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
Voyager 2 launched on aug.
Distance and velocities are updated in real time.
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by nasa on august 20 1977 to study the outer planets a part of the voyager program it was launched 16 days before its twin voyager 1 on a trajectory that took longer to reach jupiter and saturn but enabled further encounters with uranus and neptune.
It is the only spacecraft to have visited either of these two ice giant planets.
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