Voyager

A voyager is a person who travels, especially as an explorer. The equivalent French term voyageur is used to describe early French Canadian fur traders and explorers who usually travelled by canoe. The voyageurs evolved from the coureur des bois.

It may also mean any of the following:

in computing:

• LG Voyager, the mobile phone manufactured by LG Electronics
• Voyager (web browser), a web browser for the Amiga range of computers
• Voyager (Computer worm), a potentially damaging computer worm affecting Oracle databases
• Voyager (library program), the integrated library system from Endeavor Information Systems, now part of Ex Libris Group
• NCR Voyager, a computer platform from NCR Corporation
• the code name for the HP-10C series of handheld programmable calculators

in electronic and computer music

• Minimoog Voyager, a synthesizer designed by Robert Moog

in entertainment

• Voyager (band), a British pop-rock band active between 1979 and 1981
• VOYAGER (band), American heavy melodic doom / rock band from the Boston area, formed in 2007 by former members of metal band Waking Judea
• Voyager (Metal Band), Australian progressive metal band from Perth
• Voyager (album), a music album by Mike Oldfield
• The Voyager (Homo Faber in German), a German film from 1991
• The Voyager Company, a pioneering multimedia CD-ROM publisher in the 1980s and 1990s
• Star Trek: Voyager, a TV series produced from 1995 to 2001
  • USS Voyager (NCC-74656), the titular starship of the series
• Voyager 6, a fictional Voyager class NASA space probe from Star Trek: The Motion Picture which evolved into the self-aware being V'ger (from the non-obscured characters on its nameplate)
• Earth Star Voyager, a television series pilot that aired on the Wonderful World of Disney in 1988
• Voyagers!, a time travel-based television series broadcast from 1982 to 1983 on NBC
• "Voyager," a song from the 2001 album Discovery (Daft Punk album)
• The name of the Black Testament in Xenosaga.

in literature:

• Voyager Books, an imprint of HarperCollins specializing in fantasy novels.
• Voyager (novel), a romance novel written by Diana Gabaldon
• The Voyagers Trilogy by Ben Bova, which includes "Voyagers," "Voyagers II: The Alien Within," and "Voyagers III: Star Brothers."

in hobbyist electronics and amateur radio:

• Voyager (communications satellite), an American OSCAR-series amateur radio satellite launched in 2006

in navies:

• HMAS Voyager, a Royal Australian Navy destroyer
• HMS Voyager (D31), a Royal Navy V-class destroyer
• USS Voyager (SP-361), a US Navy motorboat

in space exploration:

• Voyager program:
  • Voyager 1, an unmanned spacecraft which was launched on September 5, 1977, which is the farthest man-made object from Earth
  • Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft which was launched on August 20, 1977
• Voyager program (Mars), a planned, but canceled series of probes to the planet Mars

in transport:

• Rutan Voyager, the first airplane to fly around the world without refueling
• VSS Voyager, the proposed second vessel of the Virgin Galactic suborbital tourism fleet
• Voyager, diesel-electric high-speed multiple-unit trains built by Bombardier Transportation for use on the British railway network
• A Plymouth Voyager or Chrysler Voyager minivan
• Voyager of the Seas, the first of Royal Caribbean International's five Voyager-class cruise ships
• Virgin Voyager and Super Voyager, two forms of trains.

See also

• Voyageur, the French word for voyager or traveller.