Jan 8 1981
From The Space Library
NASA officially approved the continuation of Voyager 2's journey to encounter Uranus in 1986 after a Saturn flyby this summer. The Uranus encounter in January 1986 (a first close-up look at that planet, seventh from the Sun and twice as far from it as Saturn) would produce measurements and photographs as the spacecraft passed on its way to a possible encounter with Neptune.
NASA's decision to maintain Voyager 2's present trajectory depended on Voyager 1's November 1980 close approach to Titan and Saturn's ring system. Successful so far in its scientific aims, NASA judged the health of the Voyager 2 spacecraft and instruments sufficient to complete a 5-year journey to Uranus and a productive flyby of that planet. (NASA Release 81-3)
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