Voyager 1 · Voyager 2 · Titan IIIE-Centaur

Voyager Anatomy

The spacecraft that toured Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and are still talking to Earth from interstellar space, drawn part by part. Take it apart, fire the rocket that launched it, and follow both probes from the pad to today on a to-scale map.

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Voyager spacecraft
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Propulsion

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Where they are now

Live: the trajectory model on this page, worked out twenty times a second.

Voyager at a glance

Figures for the spacecraft that flew as both probes, from the sources at the foot of the sheet.

The eleven investigations

What each instrument measured, and which are still switched on.

Hardware

Hover any part in Fig 1 and its sheet lights up here.

Engines

Rated figures. Everything in the live panel is computed from this table.

Two missions

One spacecraft design, two routes through the outer planets.