Voyager 2 Mission to Outer Planets by MAYCIE COLLAZO https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau en-us 2020-03-11 15:32:39 UTC 2020-03-13 14:57:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f42e.png When 12054351 https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458459185 Voyager 2 was launched August 20, 1977 by NASA from The Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, FL.]]> 2020-03-11 15:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458459185 Cost & Top Speed 12054351 https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458465791 Voyager 2 cost about $895 million to assemble. It also weighs 1,592 pounds about the weight of a small car and reached a max speed of 35,970 mph.]]> 2020-03-11 15:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458465791 Planets Visited 12054351 https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458468453 NASA launched Voyager 2 to study the outer planets and reached 4 planets of the solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It also orbited around the sun. ]]> 2020-03-11 15:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458468453 Where is it now? 12054351 https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458474221 Voyager 2 has now traveled through our whole solar system and is now in interstellar space, which would make it the 2nd spacecraft to enter interstellar space. Scientists estimate that voyager 2 is roughly 11.3 billion miles from earth.]]> 2020-03-11 15:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/458474221 Timeline 12054351 https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/459256220 Voyager 2 has a lot of important dates like:
August 20, 1977: Launch date
July 9, 1979: Jupiter flyby
August 26, 1981: Saturn flyby
January 24, 1986: Uranus flyby
August 25, 1989: Neptune flyby
December 10, 2018: Entered interstellar space
July 8, 2019: Successfully fired trajectory correction maneuver thrusters ]]> 2020-03-12 15:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/459256220 Discoveries and Firsts 12054351 https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/459262697 Voyager 2 discovered many things and had a lot of firsts such as:
- the only spacecraft to study all 4 of the solar system's giant planets so close to them
- discovered 14th moon at Jupiter
- 1st human-made object to pass by Uranus and Neptune
- also discovered 10 new moons and 2 new rings at Uranus
- discovered 5 new moons, 4 rings, and a ''Great Dark Spot'' on Neptune]]> 2020-03-12 15:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/459262697 Neptune Flyby 12054351 https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/459273984 Video from Voyager 2 flyby of Neptune]]> 2020-03-12 15:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/12054351/g1isoqg45mau/wish/459273984