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Voyager 1 & 2
— rendered to scale
Launched
1977-09-05
· Mass
825.5 kg
· Dish Ø
3.7 m
· Mag-boom
13 m
· PWS/PRA antennas
10 m
HIGH-GAIN ANTENNA
Ø 3.70 m parabolic dish
ELECTRONICS BUS
decagonal · 1.78 m flat-to-flat
MAGNETOMETER BOOM
fiberglass · 13 m · 2 outboard MAGs
PWS / PRA ANTENNAS
2 × 10 m orthogonal whips
3 × MHW-RTG
plutonium-238 · ~470 W (BOM)
SCAN PLATFORM
ISS · IRIS · UVS · PPS
Ø 3.70 m
13.0 m
10.0 m
VOYAGER 1 & 2 · DEEP-SPACE PROBE
ORTHOGRAPHIC · DEPLOYED CONFIGURATION
TECHNICAL DATA
PROJECT
Voyager 1 & 2
PROGRAM
Mariner Jupiter–Saturn
VIEW
Face-on elevation
SCALE
grid = 1 m
MASS
825.5 kg each
POWER
3 × RTG (Pu-238)
0
1 m
2
3
4
5 m
SCALE · grid = 1 m · heavy grid = 5 m
human · 1.75 m
Sense of scale
everything below is drawn 1:1 with the spacecraft above
PERSON
1.75 m
CAR
4.3 m long · 1.45 m
VOYAGER HIGH-GAIN DISH
Ø 3.70 m
DOUBLE-DECKER BUS
11 m long · 4.4 m tall
MAGNETOMETER BOOM · 13.0 m — longer than the bus