Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
14:29:00
Saturday August 20, 1977
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA 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. Voyager 2 is the fourth of five spacecraft to achieve the Solar escape velocity, which will allow it to leave the Solar System.
Heliocentric Orbit
1 Payload
Agency
Martin MariettaRocket
Height: 48.8m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 15,400 kg
Liftoff Thrust
12,769 Kilonewtons
Stages
3
Strap-ons
2
105th
Mission
5th
Mission of 1977
79th
Orbital launch attempt