Voyager 2 Timeline of Events

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Voyager 2

The Voyager 2 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space...

Timeline of Events

1977

8.20.1977

Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

1981

8.25.1981

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Saturn

1986

1.24.1986

Voyager 2 passes within 81,500 km (50,680 miles) of Uranus.

1989

8.25.1989

Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the outermost planet in the Solar System.