Engineering the ultimate image; the Voyager 2 mission.

From: Mechanical Engineering-CIME | Date: December 1, 1989| Author: Goldstein, Gina | Copyright information

ENGINEERING THE ULTIMATE IMAGE

When Voyager 2 was launched into space in 1977, its ultimate destination - like that of its twin, Voyager 1 - was the planets Jupiter and Saturn. However, a rare alignment of the outermost planets, which would allow the gravitational force of Saturn to fling the probe in the direction of Uranus and Neptune, convinced the project team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, Calif.) to extend Voyager 2's mission. This scenario had in fact b...

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