Voyager

VoyagerIn - total, two vehicles of the Voyager series were created and sent into space: Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. The vehicles were created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA. The project is considered one of the most successful and productive in the history of interplanetary research - both Voyagers transmitted high-quality images of Jupiter and Saturn for the first time, and Voyager 2 reached Uranus and Neptune for the first time. The Voyagers were the third and fourth spacecraft whose flight plan provided for a flight outside the solar system (the first two were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11). Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft in history to reach thethe name of two American space probes launched in 1977, as well as a project to explore the outer planets of the solar system with the participation of devices of this series. boundaries of the heliosphere and go beyond it.