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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Because earth moves around the sun faster than voyager 2 is speeding away from the inner solar system the distance between earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of year.
20 1977 and voyager 1 launched about two weeks later on sept.
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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.
Voyager 2 launched on aug.
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With the fault detection.
Voyager 2 is only the second spacecraft to travel this far out into the solar system.
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.
Nasa s voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
The agency has been able to keep voyager 2 the satellite launched in 1977 running by using its trajectory correction maneuver thrusters to control.
The craft was launched slightly ahead of its twin voyager 1 in 1977 and has been traveling through space for.
Nasa s longest running mission will continue on.
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.
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Since then the spacecraft have been traveling along different flight paths and at different speeds.
This is a real time indicator of voyager 2 s distance from earth in astronomical units au and either miles mi or kilometers km.
It is the only spacecraft to have visited either of these two ice giant planets.
Voyager 1 is a space probe that was launched by nasa on september 5 1977.