Mission

Voyager 2

The only spacecraft to visit all four giant planets — still calling home from interstellar space.

Voyager 2

Launched in 1977 with a golden record aboard, Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to visit all four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — and is now in interstellar space, still calling home.

Visited

  • Jupiter

    Jupiter

    More massive than every other planet combined, with a storm older than any nation.

    year: 1979 · encounter: flyby

  • Uranus

    Uranus

    The sideways planet: its axis lies nearly in its orbital plane.

    year: 1986 · encounter: flyby

  • Neptune

    Neptune

    The windiest world in the solar system, found by arithmetic before telescopes.

    year: 1989 · encounter: flyby

  • Europa

    Europa

    An ice shell over a global ocean holding more water than all of Earth's seas.

    year: 1979 · encounter: flyby

  • Saturn

    Saturn

    The gas giant whose rings would span most of the Earth-Moon distance.

    year: 1981 · encounter: flyby