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To Infinity And Beyond

A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail

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The Spacecraft That Got to Uranus and Neptune

Voyager two, which got to se and third, now fairly counts they're still meddled. It was first spacecraft to then get to uranus and neptune. By the time it got there, the exposure time was getting so long that they had to up date how it compensated for roll. The spinning of the magnetic tape drives changed the angular momentum of the spacecraft and caused it to slightly roll.

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