More about Voyager 2

VOYAGER 2


The space probe Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977 from Cape Canaveral on a Titan-Centaur rocket. It is identical to its sister probe, Voyager 1. Both probes were originally conceived as part of the names Mariner Mariner 11 and Mariner 12, respectively.


Unlike its predecessor, the Voyager 2 took a different path in its encounter with Saturn, sacrificing proximity to Titan, but taking a greater gravitational pull on their journey to Uranus and Neptune. The probe reached its closer proximity to these planets in the years 1986 and 1989, respectively.


Although many of his instruments are out of service, inspecting continues around the Solar System. At the speed of 14.8 km / s, take about 193,000 years to reach the star Ross 248, which pass at a distance of 1.7 light years.


Located at a distance of 100 AU (about 14 light-hours) from Earth in November 2012,1 has become one of the most distant objects that created man.


The December 10, 2007 discovered that the solar system has a spherical shape, but oval, due to the interstellar magnetic field of deep space.


The probe Voyager 2 was launched to take advantage of the positions of Jupiter and Saturn, as well as the then recent gravitational boost technique. In this way, the same mission could visit several planets with saving this implied.


Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977 from the Kennedy Space Center NASA’s Cape Canaveral aboard a Titan IIIE rocket.




The ground staff was so focused on a problem occurred during the launch of its twin, Voyager 1, which forgot to send Voyager 2 activation code its high-gain antenna. Luckily, the staff was able to contact the probe through the low-gain antenna and activate it.








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