Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus

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1. Story
2. With Titan already surveyed by Voyager 1, Voyager 2's Saturn pass could be shaped purely for onward travel. The encounter resolved the rings into thousands of ringlets and found structures — braids, spokes and shepherd moons — that existing ring dynamics did not predict. The gravity assist set the spacecraft on the four-and-a-half-year cruise to Uranus.
3. Knowledge
4. Voyager 2
5. Gravity assist
6. Saturn
7. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
8. Connections
9. Voyager 2
10. Saturn
11. Gravity assist
12. Voyager 1
13. The Grand Tour alignment
14. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
15. DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
16. Gravity assist
17. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
18. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
19. Jupiter
20. Neptune
21. Saturn
22. Uranus
23. Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS)
24. Titan IIIE-Centaur
25. Edward C. Stone
26. The Voyager Golden Record
27. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
28. Voyager 2 launches
29. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
30. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
31. Voyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
32. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
33. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
34. Voyager 2 crosses the heliopause at 119 AU
35. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
36. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2
37. Voyager 1
38. Voyager 2
39. Titan
40. The Grand Tour alignment
41. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
42. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
43. Pioneer 11
44. Cassini–Huygens
45. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
46. Cassini enters orbit around Saturn
47. Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
48. Voyager 1
49. Voyager 2
50. Flandro identifies a four-planet gravity-assist opportunity
51. The Grand Tour alignment
52. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
53. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
54. Evidence
55. 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.