Voyager 2

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

14:29:00

Saturday August 20, 1977

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Voyager 2

Wiki

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

Rocket

Retired
Titan IIIE

Active 1974 to 1977


Rocket

Height: 48.8m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 15,400 kg

Liftoff Thrust

12,769 Kilonewtons

Stages

3

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

SLC-41

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

15 days 22 hours

Stats

Titan III


105th

Mission

5th

Mission of 1977

1977


79th

Orbital launch attempt