Voyager Program

Voyager Program
Heliophysics
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
A series of plaques stretching through the heart of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory offers highlights of the space explorer’s career and the Voyager mission he led. Family members, colleagues, and local dignitaries gathered on Friday, Dec.
Posted December 6, 2024
Missions
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Voyager Program
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two spacecraft from the ’70s not just surviving, but thriving farther out in space than any other spacecraft has been before? A Little Mission Background Voyager is a NASA mission made up of two different spacecraft, […]
Posted November 4, 2024
Heliophysics
Heliosphere
The Solar System
The Sun
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Voyager Program
The spacecraft uses its thrusters to stay pointed at Earth, but after 47 years in space some of the fuel tubes have become clogged. Engineers working on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe have successfully mitigated an issue with the spacecraft’s thrusters, which keep the distant explorer pointed at Earth so that it can receive commands, send […]
Posted September 10, 2024
Voyager Program
Heliophysics
Heliosphere
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jupiter
Neptune
Planetary Science
Saturn
The Solar System
Uranus
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Known for his steady leadership, consensus building, and enthusiasm for engaging the public in science, Stone left a deep impact on the space community. Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, and longtime project scientist of the agency’s Voyager mission, died on June 9, 2024. He was 88. He […]
Posted June 11, 2024
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
Voyager Program
Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone and other mission team members gave a framed copy of an iconic Voyager 1 solar system image that includes Earth as a “Pale Blue Dot” to President George H.W. Bush on June 7, 1990. The presentation was made at the White House in the Oval Office. White House
Posted April 18, 2024
Voyager Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Solar System
Voyager 1
Voyager 2
The efforts should help extend the lifetimes of the agency’s interstellar explorers. Engineers for NASA’s Voyager mission are taking steps to help make sure both spacecraft, launched in 1977, continue to explore interstellar space for years to come.
Posted October 20, 2023
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