🛰️ Mission
Voyager 2
The only spacecraft that has ever visited Uranus and Neptune.
- Launched
- 20 August 1977, 49 years ago
- Working for
- 49 years so far
- Built by
- NASA
- Where it is
- In interstellar space, on a different path from its twin
- Best known for
- The Grand Tour: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, one after another
Did you know?
- It launched sixteen days before Voyager 1, on a slower path that let it reach all four giant planets.
- Everything humanity knows from close up about Uranus and Neptune comes from a few days in 1986 and 1989.
Where it went
Jupiter
The biggest planet, with a storm larger than Earth.
Saturn
The ringed giant, light enough to float in water.
Uranus
The ice giant that rolls around the Sun on its side.
Neptune
The farthest planet, with the fastest winds.
Miranda
A patchwork moon of Uranus with enormous cliffs.
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All of missions
Hubble Space Telescope
Thirty-six years above the weather, and still working.
James Webb Space Telescope
A golden mirror that sees the first galaxies in infrared.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The telescope that shows what is hot and violent.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
Kepler
Stared at one patch of sky and found thousands of planets.
TESS
Kepler’s successor, watching the whole sky for planets.