Country of Origin: United States of America
Dimensions:
18 1/8" x 9 7/8" x 5"
Materials:
Aluminum
Phenolic resin
Fiberglass
Epoxy
Plastic
Paint
Gold
Copper
This is a component of the Voyager 2 attitude/control systems. It is a flight-qualified piece of spare hardware, which was used in laboratory simulations to resolve in-flight problems encountered by the Voyager spacecraft. Voyager 2 was an unmanned space probe which, in 1986, passed close to the planet Uranus to transmit images of its surface.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory transferred this object to the Smithsonian in 1999.
Transferred from NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Restricted.
