Voyager 2

Voyager 2 — spacecraft, shown live in Cosmoscope, a real-time 3D map of the universe.

The only spacecraft ever to fly past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2 entered interstellar space in 2018 and still phones home through the Deep Space Network.

Launched
20 Aug 1977
Status
Interstellar space — the only probe to visit all four giant planets

Seeing Voyager 2 in real time

Cosmoscope draws Voyager 2 on its real trajectory, from mission ephemeris rather than an artist's impression. Open the live 3D view to see where Voyager 2 is right now, how far it has travelled from the Sun, and how long its radio signal takes to reach Earth. Scrub the timeline to replay the route that took it there.

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