1989: Voyager 2 makes its closest encounter with Neptune, passing just 3,000 miles above the cloud tops of the most distant planet in our solar system.
The Voyager 2 space probe has been our most productive unmanned space voyage. It visited all four of the outer planets and their systems of moons and rings, including the [...]
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Aug. 25, 1989: Voyager 2, Meet Neptune
REVIEW: Voyager Pro UC Enables PC, Cell Phone Communications with 1 Bluetooth Headset
The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC provides heavy callers with an excellent way to use the same Bluetooth headset for both cell phone- and PC-based unified communications systems. eWEEK Labs tested the Voyager Pro UC WG200/B, which comes with an earpiece and a pre-paired Bluetooth dongle. The system is designed to work jointly with a Bluetooth 2.0-enabled cell phone or smartphone plus a Windows-based PC softphone via the dongle.
– The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC provides heavy callers with an excellent way
to utilize the same Bluetooth headset for both cell phone- and PC-based unified
communications systems. This can free mobile users from juggling multiple
headsets, while delivering excellent voice quality and distance per…
LABS GALLERY: Plantronics’ Voyager Pro UC Enables Use of One Bluetooth Headset for Multiple Systems
The Plantronics Voyager Pro UC provides callers with an excellent way to utilize the same Bluetooth headset for both cell phone- and PC-based unified communications systems, while delivering excellent voice quality and distance performance along with reasonable battery life.
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Aug. 21, 1989: Voyager 2 Reaches Triton
1989: Twelve years and one day after liftoff, Voyager 2 reaches Triton, the largest of Neptune’s eight moons and the coldest, most unusual satellite in our solar system.
Launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 20, 1977, Voyager 2, as the name suggests, was the second of two identical deep-space probes originally dispatched by NASA to gather [...]



