The Voyager series of space probes were unmanned spacecraft created by the American space agency NASA in the later half of the 20th century.
Designed as planetary surveyors, these probes recorded their findings which were later transmitted to NASA. In the event of a probe's malfunction, an operator could access the probe's memory banks by the use of an unique numerical code.
Voyager 1 and 2[]
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 passed through the Jovian system and took images of the moon Europa in 1979. (PIC: "Watcher")
The first two (in real life, only) Voyager probes each contained a recording of numerous earthly sounds and images, including 6-year-old Nick Sagan (whose father chaired the committee which chose what to put on the record) saying, "Hello from the children of planet Earth".
Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8, p. 106, suggests that all six craft in the Voyager series were approved in May 1972, with Voyager 6 being last, launched in 1999. All craft were constructed identically of 65,000 individual parts, including a radioisotope thermoelectric generator, plasma and cosmic ray detectors, and a data storage capacity of 500 million bits.
Voyager 6[]
Voyager 6
Voyager 6 was the sixth of the Voyager series. It was believed to have traveled through a black hole and became the source of the machine planet's V'ger cloud. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
External links[]
- Voyager series at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Voyager program at Wikipedia