Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants and enabled further encounters with the ice gia
Voyager in transport to a solar thermal test chamber.
Voyager 2 awaiting payload entry into a Titan IIIE/Centaur rocket.
Voyager 2 launch on August 20, 1977, with a Titan IIIE/Centaur
The Great Red Spot photographed during the Voyager 2 flyby of Jupiter
The NASA Deep Space Network is a worldwide network of spacecraft communication ground segment facilities, located in the United States, Spain, and Australia, that supports NASA's interplanetary spacec
Voyager 2
…begun to provide the first direct measurements of the density and temperature of the interstellar plasma. Voyager 2 is in contact with Earth through the NASA Deep Space Network. Communications are the responsibility of Australia's DSS 43 communication antenna, part of the Canberra communication complex; the craft's southern…
Deep Space Network Operations Center at JPL, Pasadena, California, in 1993
70 m antenna at Goldstone, California
The Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in 2008
70 m antenna at Robledo de Chavela, Spain