Voyager was the result of the Grand Tour mission advocated in the late 1960's. Initially, Grand Tour was to flyby all the outer planets using the gravitational swingby technique on two spacecraft, each on a different tour. Planetary alignments necessary to utilize this technique occur every 176 years. Cost and schedule dictated a less ambitious mission. Consequently, two advanced Mariner-class spacecraft were developed to extend the planetary reconnaissance exploration to some of the outer planets. These two identical spacecraft became Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, whose prime mission is to explore the Jupiter and Saturn planetary systems. Gravitational swingbys were planned to go from planet to planet and thus accomplish the two-part Voyager mission.


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    Title :

    Voyager 2 Encounter at Uranus Mission Operation Report


    Publication date :

    1986


    Size :

    57 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




    Interplanetary optical navigation - Voyager Uranus encounter

    Synnott, S. P. / Donegan, A. J. / Riedel, J. E. et al. | NTRS | 1986



    Interplanetary optical navigation - Voyager Uranus encounter

    SYNNOTT, S. / DONEGAN, A. / RIEDEL, J. et al. | AIAA | 1986



    Satellite ephemerides for the Voyager Uranus encounter

    JACOBSON, R. / STANDISH, E. | AIAA | 1984