Why is Voyager 2 the only spacecraft to visit the ice giant planets?

💡 The Answer

• Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune.
• It was launched on a trajectory that enabled encounters with the ice giants.
• No other spacecraft has flown by or orbited either ice giant planet.
• Its flybys provided the first close-up images and data of Uranus and Neptune.