LAUNCH CENTER
Success
Sat Aug 20 1977
Lockheed Martin
Voyager 2
Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW
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(2:29 PM UTC)
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(2:29 PM UTC)
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(2:29 PM UTC)
RECOVERY OVERVIEW
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Rocket Details
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MISSION OVERVIEW
- Type: Robotic Exploration
- Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune. It is the only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice giants.
COMPLEX OVERVIEW
Location
Cape Canaveral, FL, USA
Pad
Space Launch Complex 41