Voyager 2
- id: PRB-008
- launch_year: 1977
- launch_date: 1977-08-20
- operated_by: NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- visited: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- carried: Voyager Imaging Science Subsystem, Voyager Golden Record
- people: Carl Sagan, Edward C. Stone, Carolyn Porco
- status: operating
- confidence: believed-correct
- sources: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog, Voyager mission site
Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977 — sixteen days before its twin Voyager 1 — and flew the full "Grand Tour" that a rare planetary alignment made possible: Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus in January 1986, and Neptune in August 1989. It remains the only spacecraft to have visited either ice giant.
Its cameras gave us our only close-up portraits of Uranus and Neptune, including Neptune's Great Dark Spot and the geysers of its moon Triton. Like its twin it carries the Golden Record, and it shares the mission's people: Edward C. Stone, Carl Sagan, and imaging scientist Carolyn Porco.
Voyager 2 crossed into interstellar space in 2018 and is still returning data.