Voyager probes...?

Question

We here all about the Voyager probe that is now heading out of the solar system but what about the other one? 2 were sent into space at the same time, they both used Jupiter (I think) as a sling shot and one headed towards Neptune etc and is the most publicised one. What about the other, do we still recieve signals from that?

Answer 1

This article should help, and it's only 5 months old.

Answer 2

Voyager 1 spacecraft is an 815-kilogram unmanned probe of the outer solar system and beyond, launched September 5, 1977, and is currently operational, making it NASA's longest-lasting mission. It visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets.

Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977. It is identical to its sister Voyager program craft, Voyager 1, but unlike Voyager 1, Voyager 2 followed a slower trajectory that allowed it to be kept in the ecliptic (the plane of the Solar System) so that it could be sent to Uranus and Neptune by means of gravity assist during the 1981 encounter at Saturn.

As of August 12, 2006, Voyager 1 was at a distance of 100 AU (approximately 14.96 gigameters, 9.3 billion miles or 0.002 light years from the Sun), which makes it the most distant human-made object from Earth.

Voyager 2, as of April 2006, is at −52.51° declination and 19.775 h Right Ascension, placing it in the constellation Telescopium. As of July 14, 2006, Voyager 2 was 7,367,000,000 miles from Earth.

Information about ongoing telemetry exchanges with Voyager 1&2 is available from Voyager Weekly Reports. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/weekly-reports/

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Answer 3

I refer you to this NASA Voyager website for all the information that you require http://search.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/index.html - from those who know and not from people who think they know :-)

Answer 4

Revised answer ! they are both alive and well.
See; http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/.