American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase II: Space Science and Geophysics.

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This pair of identical interplanetary spacecrafts, developed in the early 1970s by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and launched in 1977, flew by several of the outer planets, taking advantage of a rare planetary configuration in which the gravitation of each planet could be used to boost the spacecrafts to the next. The spacecrafts each carried 11 experiments (instruments). Each was built by a team consisting of a principal investigator with his/her institution's students, postdocs, engineers, and technicians, plus a set of co-investigators, who were often from other institutions and could bring in their own sets of students, postdocs, engineers, and technicians. More than 100 scientists participated. The AIP Study focused on the four instrument teams that had to coordinate data-taking strategies because all were bolted to the spacecrafts' lone scan platforms.

From the description of Voyager (Space Science): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994. (American Institute of Physics). WorldCat record id: 80617322

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