File:Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing - GPN-2003-000008.jpg
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Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore theouter planets and some of their satellites. A prototypeVoyager spacecraft is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratoryin Pasadena, California, as it successfully passed vibrationtests which simulated the expected launch environment. Thelarge parabolic antenna at the top is 3.7 meters in diameter andwas used at both S-band and X-band radio frequencies forcommunicating with Earth over the great distances from the outerplanets. The spacecraft received electrical power from threenuclear power sources (lower left). The shiny cylinder on theleft side under the antenna contained a folded boom, which extended after launch to hold a magnetometer instrument thirteen meters away from the body of the spacecraft. The truss-likestructure on the right side is the stowed instrument boom whichsupported three science instruments and a scan platform. Thescan platform allowed the accurate pointing of two cameras andthree other science instruments at Jupiter, Saturn, the ringsof Saturn, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's moons, Uranus, moons ofUranus, and Neptune.
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| current | 08:14, 13 January 2017 | | 2,258 × 2,788 (314 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977 to explore theouter planets and some of their satellites. A prototypeVoyager spacecraft is shown at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratoryin Pasadena, California, as it successfully passed vibrationtests which simulated the expected launch environment. Thelarge parabolic antenna at the top is 3.7 meters in diameter andwas used at both S-band and X-band radio frequencies forcommunicating with Earth over the great distances from the outerplanets. The spacecraft received electrical power from threenuclear power sources (lower left). The shiny cylinder on theleft side under the antenna contained a folded boom, which extended after launch to hold a magnetometer instrument thirteen meters away from the body of the spacecraft. The truss-likestructure on the right side is the stowed instrument boom whichsupported three science instruments and a scan platform. Thescan platform allowed the accurate pointing of two cameras andthree other science instruments at Jupiter, Saturn, the ringsof Saturn, Jupiter's moons, Saturn's moons, Uranus, moons ofUranus, and Neptune. |
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