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Encyclopedia > Voyager program (Mars)

The Voyager program was a planned series of unmanned NASA probes to Mars. The missions were planned between 1966 and 1968 and scheduled for launch in 1974–75, but the funding for the program was cut in 1968 and the mission cancelled in 1971. The probes were to have been launched by a Saturn I rocket and were conceived as precursors for a manned Mars landing. Much of the planning and development effort of the Voyager program formed the basis of the Viking program.


The same name was later used by the Voyager 1 and 2 outer planet probes; see Voyager program.


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Voyager program information - Search.com (1572 words)
Voyager is also the name of a planned series of unmanned probes to Mars, cancelled in 1968.
Voyager was actually a scaled back version of the Grand Tour program of the late 1960s and early 1970s to send a pair of probes to fly by all the outer planets (scaled back because of budget cuts).
In late 2003, Voyager 1 began sending data that seemed to indicate it had crossed the termination shock, but interpretations of this data were in dispute.
Voyager program - Free Encyclopedia (801 words)
The Voyager program consisted of a pair of unmanned scientific probess, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, ostensibly sent to study Jupiter and Saturn, using an advantageous planetary alignment of the late 1970s.
The Voyager 1 scan platform was scheduled to be powered down in late 2000, but will be left on at the request of the UVS investigator (with the concurrence of the Science Steering Group) to investigate an unexpected excess in UV from the upwind direction.
Voyager is also the name of a series of unmanned probes to Mars which were planned between 1966 and 1968 for launch in 1974-75.
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