Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets

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1. Story
2. The mission's single most consequential trade. To pass close behind Titan and sound its atmosphere by radio occultation, Voyager 1 had to take a trajectory that deflected it steeply north out of the ecliptic. The atmosphere turned out to be dense and mostly nitrogen, and the cameras saw only unbroken orange haze. The cost was every remaining planet: from that moment Voyager 1 was a spacecraft with no further targets, only a direction.
3. Knowledge
4. Voyager 1
5. Saturn
6. Titan
7. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
8. Connections
9. Voyager 1
10. Saturn
11. Titan
12. The Grand Tour alignment
13. Voyager 2
14. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
15. Titan
16. NASA Deep Space Network
17. Gravity assist
18. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
19. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
20. Jupiter
21. Saturn
22. Titan
23. Voyager high-gain antenna
24. Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS)
25. Titan IIIE-Centaur
26. Edward C. Stone
27. The Voyager Golden Record
28. Carl Sagan
29. Pale Blue Dot
30. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
31. Voyager 1 launches
32. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
33. Active volcanism found on Io
34. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
35. Voyager 1 photographs the solar system from outside it
36. Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU
37. Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause at 121.6 AU
38. The 2012 crossing is confirmed from plasma oscillations
39. Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem is switched off
40. Voyager 1's low-energy charged particle instrument due for shutdown
41. Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth
42. Voyager 1
43. Voyager 2
44. Titan
45. The Grand Tour alignment
46. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
47. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
48. Pioneer 11
49. Cassini–Huygens
50. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
51. Cassini enters orbit around Saturn
52. Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
53. Voyager 1
54. Voyager 1
55. Saturn
56. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
57. Cassini–Huygens
58. Huygens lands on Titan — the only landing on an outer-system moon
59. Evidence
60. The encounter dates and principal findings at Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, including the Jovian ring, the resolved ring structure at Saturn, the tilted and offset Uranian magnetic field and the newly found moons at both ice giants. V55 verification basis: THE PAGES WERE NOT REACHED — science.nasa.gov is blocked by this session's egress proxy and the search budget was exhausted. Everything attributed here is standard mission record from general knowledge; a curator must confirm each encounter date and each count of newly discovered moons against NASA's own pages.