Classification:
Mission: Jovian planets and interstellar space.
Features: The Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft were launched in late 1977 aboard Titan III launch vehicles with Centaur upper stages. They completed highly successful prime mission flybys of Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980 and 1981. Voyager 2's extended mission succeeded with flybys of Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Both spacecraft are still healthy in 1993, and are conducting studies of interplanetary space enroute to interstellar space. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 recently identified low frequency radio emissions from the heliopause, estimated to be about 50 AU away from the spacecraft. Science data return is expected to continue well into the next century.
Stabilization: Three-axis stabilized via thrusters.
Also see JPL's Voyager Project Home Page.
