NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 were important missions launched primarily to explore Jupiter and Saturn and continuing for over 35 years covering Uranus, Neptune and beyond. They created a valuable scientific legacy used by UK scientists and leading on to other missions eg ESA’s Cassini/Huygens mission.

Voyager was a US NASA programme and the spacecraft were launched in 1977; the development would have taken place several years prior to this. The spacecraft build was undertaken by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the scientific instruments built at US institutes.

The UK Space Agency, which was established on 1 April 2011, holds all records relating to UK involvement in space missions. The UK Space Agency does not hold any records of UK companies supplying components going back to the time of the development of the Voyager spacecraft.