Jodrell Bank: The Voyager Spacecrafts

This Lovell Lecture explores the Voyager missions, their extraordinary discoveries and the latest thinking around the Golden Record. Eduardo Rubio Herrera traces the origins and scientific achievements of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, looking at how these spacecraft have continued to send data from interstellar space for nearly 50 years.

The talk also turns to the final message carried by the Voyagers: a disk designed to communicate something about humanity to any extraterrestrial civilisation that might one day encounter it. Eduardo shares new details from his decade-long project on the Golden Record, offering fresh insight into what the message contains and what it reveals about how we see ourselves.

The lecture is part of the Lovell Lecture Series at Jodrell Bank and is aimed at anyone interested in space science, astronomy and the story of one of humanity’s most iconic missions.