Talk:Voyager 2

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December 10, 2006Featured article candidateNot promoted
June 17, 2024Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 30, 2024.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Voyager 2 has been transmitting data for more than 46 years, making it the oldest active space probe in history?
In the news A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on December 11, 2018.
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 15:30, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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  • ... that Voyager 2 has been transmitting data for over 46 years, making it the longest active space probe in history?
Improved to Good Article status by The Herald (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

The Herald (Benison) (talk) 05:55, 17 June 2024 (UTC).

  • Article recently updated to GA status. Very detailed and intricate with extensive uses of images and other detailed graphs. Article is cited well with no problems regaridng copryright issues. Good to go. - Toadboy123 (talk) 18:56, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
Adding this nice image for consideration. Always nice to see the most distant human made objects on the front page. Thriley (talk) 22:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
Artist's concept of Voyager in flight
@Thriley, Toadboy123, and The Herald: Unless I am mistaken, I find the hook sentence in the article but it is not cited. Per our WP:DYKCRIT The hook fact should be cited in the article, no later than the end of the sentence it appears in. Bruxton (talk) 18:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
@The Herald: Can you get the citation of the hook done? Toadboy123 (talk) 18:52, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
Sorry, the cite added was a lil old. I have updated it with a recent one. Thanks. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 19:02, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
@Thriley, Toadboy123, and The Herald: Thank you, another issue is missing citations for the end of paragraphs: 3rd paragraph in the Encounter with Jupiter section and 5th paragraph in the Encounter with Uranus section. Bruxton (talk) 19:13, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
Inline cites added.The Herald (Benison) (talk) 19:56, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
@Thriley, Toadboy123, and The Herald: Also just noticed the first paragraph of Encounter with Jupiter section is missing a citation. Bruxton (talk) 20:22, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
Done :) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 09:04, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
Note: Last appeared as a bold link at ITN on December 11, 2018. Appeared in OTD over the years but not within the last five years. Bruxton (talk) 15:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

date when each respective instrument was switched-off

French Wikipedia gives additional info : the date when each disabled instrument was switched-off. Wisdood (talk) 12:08, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

the dates are in the "Timeline of travel" table. Artem.G (talk) 12:56, 21 October 2025 (UTC)

Jupiter Approach Distance

Hi all, I haven't edited much before now and was wondering about voyager 2's closest approach to Jupiter. On this article From NASA: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/voyager-2/ the value is listed at 645,000km (400,785 mi) away from Jupiter, which contradicts the value listed in the source on the referenced JPL article which lists 570,000km. should this value be edited? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. TedwardTheGreat (talk) 07:34, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Is heliocentric positions image in this article correct? (current status - updated)

The referred image in this article depicts the Voyager 1 and 2 positions possibly correctly in "PLAN" (which is mentioned in caption also as - Plot 1 is viewed from the north ecliptic pole), but in "FRONT ELEVATION" and in "SIDE" representation, Voyager 1 is shown progressing south of ecliptic plane and Voyager 2 is shown progressing north of ecliptic plane - whereas it should be the reverse if i understand correctly !!!

So am I missing something here? request if someone could please confirm / clarify - thanks a lot. Jn.mdel (talk) 18:19, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

After adding this discussion topic yesterday, I have messaged the original contributor of this graphic also for review because further noticed that even "Pioneer 10", "Pioneer 11" and "New Horizons" positions also appear to be vertically-flipped in the "FRONT ELEVATION" and in "SIDE" representation in this image - as all these are shown progressing/positioned south of ecliptic plane in this image - whereas if one refer's to NASA's LIVE FEED at https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_voyager_1 - then "Voyager 1", "Pioneer 10", "Pioneer 11" and "New Horizons" are progressing/positioned north of ecliptic plane - and "Voyager 2" is progressing south of ecliptic plane.
Hence, to summarise the point - in this image, the galactic centre is somewhat towards the left in this "PLAN" image and we are viewing the ecliptic plane from top (from ecliptic north pole) - hence, in the "FRONT ELEVATION" and "SIDE" views, we would see the ecliptic plane as a thickness (with ecliptic north pole towards the top and ecliptic south pole towards the bottom in this image) - hence, submitting the above points for review. Jn.mdel (talk) 17:18, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
CURRENT STATUS : the original graphic contributor is looking into this matter.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:Interstellar_probes_trajectory.svg Jn.mdel (talk) 04:00, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
@Cmglee thanks for updating. Jn.mdel (talk) 01:43, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

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