Voyager-2 Welcome to my blog "Mystery of Galaxy". On November 5th 2018, Voyager 2 left the protective bubble of the Sun and joined its sister ship Voyager 1 on an interstellar mission 41 years after it launched. Voyager2 became just the second spacecraft ever to reach interstellar space. But to really put its achievement into perspective, we need to wind the clock back all the way to 1977 when Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched from Cape Canaveral. Their mission was unprecedented; a grand tour of the outer solar system. Interestingly, Voyager 1 actually launched about a month after Voyager 2. Voyager-2 Source: CreeD93 / CC BY-SA But because Voyager 1 by that time was on an inside orbital track, it was able to overtake Voyager 2 and reach Jupiter first, hence the name "Voyager 1". Both spacecraft flew past Jupiter and its moons in 1979, then Saturn and its moon system in 1980 and 1981. Following the Saturn encounter, Voyager 1 accelerated upwards and out of the plan...
The blog is about the Mysteries of Space like History of our solar system, Black holes, Supernovae and etc.