Missions to Uranus

Only one space mission has ever flown by Uranus, the Voyager 2. Launched in 1973, actually sixteen days before the Voyager 1, the probe passed by Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus on a modified version of NASA’s Grand Tour. Nine years later, it successfully reached Uranus. Some of the most important Uranian discoveries of Voyager 2 are:

Uranus’s highly inclined magnetosphere
Ten satellites, with more discovered later from the same data
Uranus’s ring system

Summary of Past Missions

Mission	Country	Launch Date	Arrival Date	Type	Mission Details
Voyager 2	USA	August 20, 1977	January 1986	Flyby	10,000 images Spectrometric analysis Now traveling outside the Solar System