Voyager Chronology Options

[tasp]

I recall being very nervous about the Voyager 1 Jupiter flyby as the interesting satellite passes occurred after closest Jovian approach and I was extremely worried about radiation messing up the craft before they happened.

I managed to be in the Huntley Lodge in Montana, as I recall, for the great 1979 solar eclipse. It was a sufficient distraction to make my Voyager anxiety tolerable.

Time magazine managed to cover both events in the same issue.

[Liss]

I can offer the following, need to do more research to verify timezones and SCET/ERT:

12 Nov 1980 (05:41) Titan: Titan flyby (targetted)
12 Nov 1980 (22:17) Tethys: Tethys flyby (distant)
12 Nov 1980 (23:46) Saturn: Saturn Fly-By
13 Nov 1980 (01:43) Mimas: Mimas flyby
13 Nov 1980 (01:51) Enceladus: Enceladus flyby (distant)
13 Nov 1980 (03:39) Dione: Dione flyby (distant)
13 Nov 1980 (06:22) Rhea: Rhea flyby
13 Nov 1980 (16:45) Hyperion: Hyperion flyby (distant)

Well, I was able to extract the sequence of Voyager 1 Saturn flyby from

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 Saturn encounter orbit determination
Campbell J.K., Jacobson R.A., Riedel J.E., Synnott S.P., Taylor A.H.
AIAA-1982-419
20th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL, Jan 11-14, 1982, 17 p.

At http://www.aiaa.org/content.cfm?pageid=406...r&gID=90384
the report is not available without payment but with a carefull googling all the encounter table may be extracted.

Event - Date and time, UTC - Time relative to CA, hours - Distance

Titan CA. 11/12/80 05:40:41 -18.09 6969
Enter Titan Sun-occ. 05:46:22 -17.99
Enter Titan Earth-occ. 05:47:33 -17.97
[Exit] Titan Sun-occ. 05:57:06 -17.81
Descending node 05:58:09 -17.79 1184575
Exit Titan Earth-occ. 05:59:45 -17.77
Tethys CA 22:15:52 -1.50 415855
Saturn CA* 23:45:50 0. 184497
Closest Mimas in light 11/13/80 00:37:41 +0.86 108432
Mimas CA** 01:42:32 +1.95 88996
Enter Saturn Earth-occ. 01:43:16 +1.96
Enceladus CA 01:50:36. +2.08 202796
Enter Saturn Sun-occ. 01:56:54 +2.18
Exit Saturn sun-occ. 02:37:24 +2.86
Exit Saturn Earth-occ. 03:10:35 +3.41
Enter Ring Earth-occ. 03:19:40 +3.56
Closest Dione in light 03:28:13 +3.71 161543
[Exit] Ring Earth-occ. 03:35:09 +3.82
Dione CA*** 03:39:00 +3.89 161285
Ascending node 04:20:06 +4.57 377902
Rhea CA 06:21:13 +6.59 72797
Hyperion CA 16:44:01 +16.97 897277

CA = closest approach
*One-way light time = 01 24 47
**Mimas is in darkness at CA
***Dione is in darkness at CA

[Liss]

Voyager 2

25 Aug 1981 (09:24) 665,960 km Titan: Titan flyby (distant)
26 Aug 1981 (01:04) 502,250 km Dione: Dione flyby (distant)
26 Aug 1981 (02:34) 309,990 km Mimas: Mimas flyby (distant)
26 Aug 1981 (03:24) 161,081 km Saturn: Saturn
26 Aug 1981 (03:45) 87,140 km Enceladus: Enceladus flyby
26 Aug 1981 (06:12) 93,000 km Tethys: Tethys flyby
26 Aug 1981 (06:29) 645,280 km Rhea: Rhea flyby (distant)

Again I was able to extract Voyager 2 Saturn visit times from the article by Campbell, Jacobson et al.

Date and time, UTC SCET -- Time from Saturn CA -- Event -- Distance, km
1981.08.23 01:26:56.5 -03 01:57:11 Iapetus 909070
1981.08.25 01:25:25.8 -01 01:58:42 Hyperion 470840
1981.08.25 09:37:46.3 -00 17:46:21 Titan 665960
1981.08.25 22:57:33.2 -00 04:26:35 SXII Helene (1980 S6) 318200
1981.08.26 01:04:31.8 -00 02:19:36 Dione 502250
1981.08.26 02:22:16.8 -00 01:01:51 SXIV Calypso (1980 S25) 153518
1981.08.26 02:34:26.X -00 00:49:41 Mimas 309990
1981.08.26 03:08:29.4 -00 00:15:38 SXVII Prometheus (1980 S28) 287170
1981.08.26 03:19:17.5 -00 00:04:50 SXV Pandora (1980 S26) 107000
1981.08.26 03:24:07.8 00 00:00:00 Saturn
1981.08.26 03:33:02.4 +00 00:08:55 SXVI Atlas (1980 S27) 246590
1981.08.26 03:45:16.1 +00 00:21:08 Enceladus 87140
1981.08.26 03:50:03.6 +00 00:25:56 SX Janus (1980 S1) 222760
1981.08.26 04:00:24.6 +00 00:36:17 Earth occult enter Saturn? 166133
1981.08.26 04:05:55.8 +00 00:41:48 SXI Epimetheus (1980 S3) 147010
1981.08.26 04:08:12.1 +00 00:44:04 Sun (umbra) occult enter Saturn
1981.08.26 05:34:36.9 +00 02:10:29 Earth occult leave Saturn 215762
1981.08.26 05:44:56.s +00 02:20:21 Sun (umbra) occult leave Saturn 223334
1981.08.26 06:02:46.7 +00 02:38:39 SXIII Telesto (1980 S13) 284400
1981.08.26 06:12:30.2 +00 02:48:22 Tethys 93000
1981.08.26 06:28:48.4 +00 03:04:41 Rhea 645280
1981.09.05 01:22:33.5 +09 21:58:26 Phoebe 2073640

Notes:
1. Two or more lines for rings crossing were not discernible.
2. Numbers cross-checked against the Saturn CA time.
3. Current names an designations for small satellite discovered in 1979-1980 are used.
4. Don't know why this distance to Phoebe was there in the table.
5. Current estimate for Saturn CA seems to be 03:24:05.

[jasedm]

I never cease to be amazed at the quality of the initial reconnaisance of the Saturn system by the two Voyagers. The amount of data gathered by the two craft, which between them spent less than two weeks within Iapetus' orbit is nothing short of astonishing.

[Astro0]

Happy Anniversary of Launch Day Voyager 2!

[gwiz]

A few more Voyager 2 dates, source is a diagram in Spaceflight, Nov 81:

1979-07-23 TCM6
1981-07-31 Start Far Encounter 1
1981-08-11 Start Far Encounter 2
1981-08-25 Start Near Encounter (CA-16 h)
1981-08-27 End Near Encounter (CA+28 h)
1981-09-28 End Post Encounter
1981-09-29 TCM10

[Liss]

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Thank you very much, qwiz.

[MarcF]

35 years of flight !! Happy Anniversary Voyager 2 !
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/voyager_35.html