urn:nasa:pds:voyager2_rss_jupiter_raw:document:mission 1.0 1.16.0.0 Product_Document 1977 The Voyager mission explored the Jovian, Saturnian, Uranian, and Neptunian systems, as well as interplanetary space to and beyond the heliopause. Voyager 1 was launched on 1977-09-05. It flew past Jupiter on 1979-03-05 and Saturn on 1980-11-12, before continuing on into the space above the ecliptic. Voyager 2 was launched on 1977-08-20. It flew past Jupiter on 1979-07-09, Saturn on 1981-08-26, Uranus on 1986-01-24, and Neptune on 1989-08-25. It then continued into interplanetary space below the ecliptic. During the encounters with the gas giant planets, the spacecraft had close to moderate flybys with several of the natural satellites and rings. The purpose of this paper was to describe the pre-launch Voyager mission design so that the objectives and goals of the eleven scientific investigations which were described in subsequent papers in this special issue of Space Science Reviews couyld be better understood. 2023-11-05 1.0 The original PDF version of the paper, archived under PDS3 standards, was a preprint. It has been converted to PDF/A-1b using https://pdf.online/pdf-to-pdfa. A text-only version in the PDS3 archive (with no tables or figures and several spelling errors) has been carried forward. A new label was created as part of the new PDS4 archiving process. Voyager Mission Mission urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.voyager document_to_investigation NASA Deep Space Network Host urn:nasa:pds:context:facility:observatory.dsn is_facility DSN Radio Science Instrumentation Instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:dsn.rss is_instrument DSS 14 64-m Antenna Telescope urn:nasa:pds:context:telescope:goldstone.dss14_64m is_telescope Voyager 2 Host urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.vg2 is_instrument_host Voyager 2 Radio Science Instrumentation Instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg2.rss is_instrument Voyager 2 Spacecraft Sensors Instrument urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument:vg2.eng is_instrument Jupiter Planet urn:nasa:pds:context:target:planet.jupiter document_to_target Voyager Mission Description 1977-03 1 Voyager Mission Description English 2 mission.pdf 2022-02-04T23:32:00 888074 2281fe5f81caeb16d4001a2eb7f24772 PDF/A mission.txt 2021-04-18T20:31:30 48353 49c4c90f7297f6ab26d58332ce0dc1f1 7-Bit ASCII Text