Records of the NRAO > Photographs Series > VLA Unit > Voyager Project Subunit

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Sketch for the Voyager 2 Encounter, 1985
Description: The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in 1989. NRAO began planning and preparations in 1982, and test phased array observing on Voyager and planets began…
Start Date: 1985-11

Voyager Telecommunications Performance Diagram, 1989
Description: The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989.
Start Date: 1989

Voyager Telemetry Diagram, 1989
Description: The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989.
Start Date: 1989

Voyager Data Return Diagram, 1989
Description: The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989.
Start Date: 1989

VLA Control Room, 1989
Description: Roy Heathwole and George Martin.
Start Date: 1989

George Martin in VLA Control Room, 1989
Description: The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989.
Start Date: 1989

Cryogenics Lab, 1989
Description: Rudy Latasa and Joe Ortiz.
Start Date: 1989

Ray Gonzalez with Equipment Racks for Voyager Mission, 1989
Description: The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989.
Start Date: 1989

Ground Terminal at the VLA Site, 1989
Description: Ground terminal at the VLA site for satellite link JPL used to transfer signals received by the VLA back to Goldstone to combine with signals received by the Deep Space Network.
Start Date: 1989

Backup Generators Installed for the Voyager Project, 1989
Description: The VLA was used with Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Deep Space Network in Goldstone CA to track NASA’s Voyager 2 encounter with Neptune in August 1989.
Start Date: 1989

Voyager Receiver on a VLA Antenna, 1989
Description: The Voyager receiver is gold colored.
Start Date: 1989

Cryogenic X-band Receiver Used for the Voyager Project, 1989
Description: After the Voyager Project, the receiver was then used for X-band science until replaced by a wider bandwidth X-band receiver as part of the EVLA Project.
Start Date: 1989

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