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Voyager Spacecraft Celebrate 49 Years in Orbit
NASA commemorates the 49th anniversary of Voyager 1 and 2, twin spacecraft launched in 1977 to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment. The probes have provided invaluable data on our solar system's outer planets.
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Twin Travelers In 1977, NASA launched twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2, taking advantage of a once-every-175-year planetary alignment of the four largest planets in our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Using six gravity assists between them, this Grand Tour gave us up-close views o
2026-10-30 10:00 UTC