Voyager 2: the story of its mission so far – in pictures
An illustration from 1965 shows the calculated trajectories of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Launched 16 days apart, the two probes were designed to take advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets that occurs once every 176 years. Their trajectories have taken them by the outer planets, where they have captured never-before-seen images. Jupiter and Saturn gave them a ‘gravity assist’, boosting their velocity. Though both spacecraft were destined for interstellar space, they followed slightly different trajectories
Photograph: JPL-Caltech/Nasa
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Engineers seen working on Voyager 2 on 23 March 1977. The probe is managed by Nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory near Pasadena, California, a division of the California Institute of Technology
Photograph: JPL-Caltech/Nasa
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Since launching in 1977, the Nasa probe has captured never-before-seen images of the solar system
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