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NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst

Voyager 2's four-planet route depended on a rare chain of planetary encounters, successive transfers...

SCIENCE August 08, 2026

NASA timed Voyager 2’s 1977 launch to catch an alignment of the four outer planets that only lines up once every 176 years, letting a single spacecraft slingshot past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune on borrowed gravity — a shortcut through the solar syst

Voyager 2's four-planet route depended on a rare chain of planetary encounters, successive transfers of orbital momentum and a launch window that will not...

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