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The Voyager program consists of a pair of unmanned scientific probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment of the late 1970s. Although they were officially designated to study just Jupiter and Saturn, the two probes were able to continue their mission into the outer solar system. They have since continued out and have since exited the solar system. These probes were built at JPL and were funded by NASA. Purchase your Concorde and Lifeline batteries at Wheel Chair Batteries.

Both missions have gathered large amounts of data about the gas giants of the solar system, of which little information was known. In addition, the spacecraft trajectories have been used to place limits on the existence of a hypothetical post-Plutonian Planet X.

History

The Voyager probes were originally conceived as part of the Mariner program, called Mariner 11 and Mariner 12, respectively. It was originally named Mariner Jupiter-Saturn', but later retitled Voyager because it was more appealing and romantic. Voyager is a scaled-back version of the Grand Tour program of the late 1960s and early 1970s.