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	Voyager
		Voyager 2 was launched first, on August 20, 1977, followed by Voyager 1, which was put on a faster, shorter trajectory to Jupiter on September 5, 1977.
		As Voyager 2 passed Neptune and began its journey to the edge of the solar system, its camera was rotated to look back at the planets and take one last parting shot of the solar system.
		Voyager 2's "family portrait" illustrates the vastness of the solar system and the huge expanses of emptiness that lie between the outer planets.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/voyager.htm (1048 words)

	Voyager 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Voyager 2 is arguably the most prolific space probe ever launched, visiting 4 planets and their many moons with powerful cameras and a multitude of scientific instruments, at a fraction of the money later spent on specialized probes such as the Galileo spacecraft and the Cassini-Huygens probe.
		Voyager 2 found that at the highest levels (70 millibars or 7.0 kilopascals) Saturn's temperature was 70 kelvins (-203.15°C), while at the deepest levels measured (1200 millibars or 120 kilopascals) the temperature increased to 143 kelvins (-130.15°C).
		Voyager 2, as of April 2006, is at -52.51° declination and 19.775hrs Right Ascension, placing it in the constellation Telescopium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voyager_2 (925 words)

	Voyager program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Voyager is also the name of a planned series of unmanned probes to Mars, cancelled in 1968.
		Voyager was actually a scaled back version of the Grand Tour program of the late 1960s and early 1970s to send a pair of probes to fly by all the outer planets (scaled back because of budget cuts).
		Voyager 1 and Pioneer 10 are also the most widely-separated man made objects in the Universe because they are travelling in roughly opposite directions from the sun.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voyager_program (1518 words)

	Voyager - Science - Planetary Voyage
		The prime Voyager mission to Jupiter and Saturn brought Voyager 1 to Jupiter on March 5, 1979, and Saturn on November 12, 1980, followed by Voyager 2 to Jupiter on July 9, 1979, and Saturn on August 25, 1981.
		Voyager 2 was aimed to fly by Saturn at a point that would automatically send the spacecraft in the direction of Uranus.
		Voyager 2 is also headed out of the solar system, diving below the ecliptic plane at an angle of about 48 degrees and a rate of about 470 million kilometers (about 290 million miles) a year.
	voyager.jpl.nasa.gov /science/planetary.html (955 words)

	Voyager 2
		Voyager 2 was one of a pair of spacecraft launched to explore the planets of the outer solar system and the interplanetary environment.
		Voyager 2 proceeded with its primary mission and flew by Jupiter (closest approach on 09 July 1979) and Saturn (05 Aug. 1981).
		Voyager 2 is speeding away from the Sun at a velocity of about 3.13 AU/year toward a point in the sky of RA=338 degrees, Dec=-62 degrees (-47.46 degrees ecliptic latitude, 310.89 degrees ecliptic longitude).
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~marcsulf/html/voyager2.html (1360 words)

	NSSDC: Voyager Project Information
		Preceeded by the Pioneer 10 and 11 missions, Voyager 1 and 2 were to make studies of Jupiter and Saturn, their satellites, and their magnetospheres as well as studies of the interplanetary medium.
		Voyager 2 was then diverted to the remaining gas giants, Uranus (January 1986) and Neptune (August 1989).
		Data collected by Voyager 1 and 2 were not confined to the periods surrounding encounters with the outer gas giants, with the various fields and particles experiments and the ultraviolet spectrometer collecting data nearly continuously during the interplanetary cruise phases of the mission.
	nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /planetary/voyager.html (464 words)

	SPACE.com -- Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System's Edge
		The milestone, which comes about a year after Voyager 1's crossing, comes earlier than expected and suggests to scientists that the edge of the shock is about one billion miles closer to the Sun in the southern region of the solar system than in the north.
		Both Voyager spacecrafts were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida: Voyager 2 headed out on Aug. 20, 1977, Voyager 1 on Sept. 5, 1977.
		Currently, Voyager 1 is about 9.1 billion miles from the Sun and traveling at a speed of 3.6 A U per year while Voyager 2 is about 7.3 billion miles away and moving at about 3.3 AU per year.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/060523_heliosphere_shape.html (443 words)

	Voyager
		Voyager 2 was launched August 20, 1977 followed by the launch of Voyager 1 sixteen days later.
		Voyager 2 was launched August 20, 1977, onboard a Titan III/ Centaur rocket.
		Voyager 2 completed both of those missions and is currently performing scientific experiments in interstellar space.
	pds.jpl.nasa.gov /planets/welcome/voyager.htm (418 words)

	Astronomy News
		Voyager 1 and its twin spacecraft Voyager 2 are now part of a NASA Interstellar Mission to explore the outermost edge of the sun's domain and beyond.
		Voyager 1 is expected to pass beyond the heliopause into interstellar space in eight to 10 years, with Voyager 2 expected to follow about five years later.
		Voyager 1, became the first spacecraft to cross the termination shock at the edge of the heliosphere - the bubble in space created by the solar wind - and entered the outermost layer of the heliosphere about 14.4 billion km from the Sun.
	www.activeboard.com /forum.spark?forumID=58381&subForumID=150688&action=viewTopic&commentID=3042600 (3576 words)

	Voyager Images of Neptune - Explore the Cosmos \| The Planetary Society
		As Voyager 2 receded from Neptune, it observed the thin rings in glancing sunlight (at a phase angle of 135°).
		Voyager's photographs of the ring arcs were the first photographic evidence that such a ring system exists.
		Voyager 2 captured this post-encounter view of Neptune's south pole on August 25, 1989 as the spacecraft sped away from the planet.
	www.planetary.org /explore/topics/our_solar_system/neptune/voyager_images.html (501 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Missions: By Target: Neptune: Past: Voyager 2
		Voyager 2's exciting flyby of Neptune capped the historic Grand Tour of the outer solar system, taking advantage of a rare planetary alignment to visit the four giant outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune over the course of 12 years.
		Voyager 2 skimmed the north pole of Neptune by a mere 4800 kilometers (3000 miles), and determined basic characteristics of Neptune and its largest moon Triton: color, cloud-top features, size, mass, composition, temperature, and rotation rate.
		Voyager 2 found six new Neptunian moons and three new rings plus a broad sheet of ring material.
	sse.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Neptune&MCode=Voyager_2 (400 words)

	Voyager 1 & 2
		Voyager 2 was launched first on August 20, 1977 and its sister craft Voyager 1 went into space on September 5, 1977.
		Voyager 1 continued to orbit Saturn and further study the planet itself as well as its moons, while Voyager 2 went on to study Uranus, Neptune, their moons, and finally was sent on a path into interstellar space where it continues to transmit data.
		Voyager found that below the atmosphere lies turbulent smaller storms and eddies throughout the banded clouds of the planet.
	library.thinkquest.org /28327/html/exploration/satellites/voyager.html (757 words)

	Voyager 495 boat steel and aluminum building kits and plans
		The Voyager 495 radius chine kit is the latest refinement of this world cruising sailboat and has all the qualities that the Bruce Roberts designs are famous for.
		The Voyager 495 is intended of serious offshore passagemaking and has proven so popular that we decided to re-work the design and make changes that seem so obvious once the first boats are completed.
		The Voyager 495-2 is a culmination of all we have learnt in the past 33 years of designing similar boats.
	www.bruceroberts.com /public/HTML/V495.htm (2063 words)

	Voyager 2 Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Because of this, Voyager 2 could not see the moon Titan up close unlike its twin, but it allowed the probe to become the first spacecraft to travel to Uranus and Neptune, thus completing the so-called Grand Tour, a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets only occurs once every 176 years [2].
		Fortunately, ground crews were able to establish contact through the craft's low-gain antenna and activate it.
		Voyager 2 found that at the highest levels (70 millibars or 7.0 kilopascals) Saturn's temperature was 70 kelvins, while at the deepest levels measured (1200 millibars or 120 kilopascals) the temperature increased to 143 kelvins.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Voyager_2 (688 words)

	Mission Voyager 1 & 2
		Voyager 1 hat ihre Mission, die Planeten Jupiter und Saturn mit ihren vielen Monden zu erkunden, erfolgreich abgeschlossen und befindet sich nun jenseits des Sonnensystemes im tiefen Raum.
		Voyager 2 war ihrer Schwester Voyager 1 zu Jupiter und Saturn gefolgt, und besuchte den Uranus im Januar 1986 und Neptun im August 1989.
		In den siebziger und achtziger Jahren waren neben den Sonden Voyager 1 und Pioneer 10 auch noch deren Zwillingssonden Voyager 2 und Pioneer 11 zur Erforschung der äußeren Planeten unseres Sonnensystemes unterwegs.
	www.space-odyssey.de /voyager.htm (495 words)

	NASA - Voyager Enters Solar System's Final Frontier
		Voyager 1 is traveling a lot and has crossed into the heliosheath, the region where interstellar gas and solar wind start to mix.
		The strongest evidence that Voyager 1 has passed through the termination shock into the slower, denser wind beyond is its measurement of an increase in the strength of the magnetic field carried by the solar wind and the inferred decrease in its speed.
		Voyager 1 is about 8.7 billion miles from the Sun and traveling at a speed of 3.6 AU per year while Voyager 2 is about 6.5 billion miles away and moving at about 3.3 AU per year.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/universe/solarsystem/voyager_agu.html (891 words)

	Jet Propulsion Laboratory
		Voyager 2 was launched first from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 20, 1977; Voyager 1 was launched on a faster, shorter trajectory on September 5, 1977.
		Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter on March 5, 1979, and Voyager 2 followed with its closest approach occurring on July 9, 1979.
		Voyager 2 flew by Uranus on January 24, 1986, coming within 81,500 kilometers (50,600 miles) of the planet's cloud tops.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/current/voyager.html (422 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Missions: By Target: Jupiter: Past: Voyager 2
		Voyager 2 achieved the Grand Tour of our outer solar system, taking advantage of a rare planetary alignment to visit the four giant outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, a feat not likely to be repeated in our lifetimes.
		Voyager 2's initial charge was to take over the primary mission duties at Jupiter and Saturn should anything prevent Voyager 1 from meeting those objectives, or should Voyager 1 discover anything so intriguing that it merited a closer look.
		Voyager 2 flew by Jupiter at a distance of 722,000 kilometers (448,600 miles), and like its sister, returned rich images of the planet, its rings, and satellites.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Target&Target=Jupiter&MCode=Voyager_2 (440 words)

	The Risks Digest Volume 9: Issue 12
		The Trident 2, which is 44 feet long and weighs 130,000 pounds at launching, is much longer and nearly twice as heavy as the Trident 1 [...which is now in service and which Trident 2 is scheduled to replace...].
		Until the test failures, the Trident 2 was the one element of the Defense Department's nuclear modernization program that was moving along smoothly, having successfully completed 16 of 19 test firings from land...
		Voyager 2's gyroscopes and electronic brain were alive during the Titan/Centaur launch, monitoring the sequence of events in order to take control upon separation.
	catless.ncl.ac.uk /Risks/9.12.html (1286 words)

	Voyager
		A mission that was supposed to last just five years is celebrating its 30th anniversary this fall.
		Scientists continue to receive data from the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft as they approach interstellar space.
		The twin craft have become a fixture of pop culture, inspiring novels and playing a central role in television shows, music videos, songs and movies from the 1980s and 1990s.
	voyager.jpl.nasa.gov (198 words)

	Space Today Online - Solar System - Planet Uranus
		After passing Uranus, Voyager 2 sailed on toward a rendezvous within 3,000 miles of the planet Neptune in August 1989.
		Voyager 2 found 10 previously-unknown moons, the largest only 90 miles in diameter, bringing the total to 15.
		Ring gaps in some Voyager 2 photos, combined with a mysterious wave in one ring, may indicate two of the unseen moons could be 11 miles in diameter.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Uranus/UranusVoyager.html (760 words)

	Voyager 1 Sails Past 100 AU- Planetary News \| The Planetary Society
		At the urging of Carl Sagan, co-founder of The Planetary Society, Voyager 1 turned its camera back inward toward the slowly receding Sun and snapped one last set of images of the planets, a sort of family portrait, before its cameras were shut down.
		Each Voyager carries it own kind of "postcards" in the form of a golden record that Sagan was instrumental in creating.
		"Voyager 1 has crossed that Termination Shock for the first time and is in the heliosheath where the wind has slowed down and is turning around to head down the tail of the heliosphere," Stone continued.
	www.planetary.org /news/2006/0815_Voyager_1_Sailing_Past_100_AU_en_route.html (2943 words)

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