Publisher's Synopsis
A gateway to the outer solar system. the discovery and development of the slingshot; technique used to enable the probes to reach Neptune Mission planning & the development of the mission goals and the engineering requirements for the probes to survive their epic journey. Engineering the probes ; launch vehicles and propulsion systems; bus and power; navigation and science; computing and data storage; imaging and communications. Mission performance; a review of the probe's investigations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and the engineering workarounds to keep the mission on-track. Decoding the golden disc ; details of how the golden disc was fabricated to last a billion years in the depths of space, and how data from Earth was encoded onto the disc like a vinyl album, with a stylus to play it! The interstellar mission; the story of how scientists detected that the Voyager 1 had passed into interstellar space in August 2012.
