Voyager 1

Voyager 1

September 5, 1977 - Present

Chintan A. Joshi

Mission Objective

• The Voyager mission was designed to take advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of the outer planets occurs at every 175 years

• Four-planet tour for using minimum propellant and trip time.

• Four planes were Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

• the spacecraft were built to last five years

Architecture

• constructed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory• payload of 11 instruments• has 16 hydrazine thrusters• Two antennas of s and x band• digital tape recorder (DTR)• three-axis stabilization gyroscopes to keep the

probe's radio antenna pointed toward Earth.

Launch Information

• Launch Date:– September 5, 1977

• Launch Vehicle:– Titan III

• Launch Place:– Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral

• On-orbit mass:– 721.9 Kg

Internal Design

• Voyager was designed to operate in a highly-autonomous manner

• Three interconnected on-board computers• spacecraft is controlled through the Deep

Space Network (DSN) located in California's Mojave Desert.

Power

• Power was provided through three Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators(RTG).

• Plutonium-238 as fuel• The 2,400 watts of heat generated about 157

watts of electric power• Can operate till 2020

Golden Record

• carries a gold-plated audio-visual disc• Disc contains photos of the Earth and its

lifeforms, a range of scientific information, spoken greetings from people, address of solar system on galaxy.

Space Craft Diagram

Current Status

• Distance on 08-01-2013:– 18,500,838,259 KM(18.5 Billion KM)

• Roundtrip light time from the Sun– 34:17:04 (hh:mm:ss)

• First man made object which will go outside the solar system

Voyager-1

Referances

• http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/• http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/index.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1• http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/imagesvideo/

video.html

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