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VOYAGER 2

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FIND OUR PRESENTATION VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/WgQ-s8pmWKQ Part A : About Voyager 2  Voyager 2 Voyager 2 was launched at the Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 20th, 1977 at 14:29:00 UTC. The rocket it used was Titan IIIE, which has 4 stages and a load capacity of 15400 kg. One of the missions of Voyager 2 is to observe four largest and outermost planets on our solar system which are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Through calculations, trajectories for its flight can be done once every 156 years. Starting with its launch on 20 August 1977, then entering the Jovian System (the Jupiter observation stage) on 8 July 1979 with its closest distance being 721670 km from Jupiter's center of mass. Furthermore, it enters the Saturnian system (the Saturn observation stage) on 22 August 1981 with its closest distance being 161000 km from Saturn's center of mass. Following this, it entered the Uranian system (the Uranus observ...
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HIMAWARI - 8 : A Geostationary Satellite Story

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Source : https://public.wmo.int/en/resources/meteoworld/facilitating-use-of-new-himawari-8-satellite-data With a mission of weather satellite, Himawari 8   ( ひまわり8号 )  was launched from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex Pad 1 at the Tanegashima Space Center at 05:16 UTC on 7 October 2014. It reached its operational geostationary orbit in October 2014, at 140.7 degrees East.  Source: http://www.spaceflight101.net/h-iia-f25-launch-updates---himawari-8.html Japan's H-IIA blasted off from Tanegashima Space Center and jumped off its lauching pad, following its 28 minute mission to reach a Geostationary Transfer Orbit. Racing across the Pacific Ocean, it separated the two solid-fueled boosters under two minutes after it launched and it resumes, as planned, firing its large Core Stage. It's second stage executed two burns which includes the first being successfully placing the stack in a low parking orbit and the second raising the apogee to reach the Geostationar...
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