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Voyager 2 Launch
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Caption:
Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977, from the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida, propelled into space on a Titan/Centaur rocket.
Background Info:
JPL manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.
Cataloging Keywords:
| Name | Value | Additional Values |
|---|---|---|
| Target | Earth | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
| System | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
| Target Type | Planet | |
| Mission | Voyager | |
| Instrument Host | Cassini Orbiter | Voyager 2 |
| Host Type | Orbiter | Flyby Spacecraft |
| Instrument | Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) | |
| Detector | ||
| Extra Keywords | Color | |
| Acquisition Date | ||
| Release Date | 1998-10-30 | |
| Date in Caption | 1977-08-20 | |
| Image Credit | NASA/JPL | |
| Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA01480 | |
| Identifier | PIA01480 | |
