NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft launched atop its Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex in Florida on September 5, 1977, at 8:56 a.m. local time.
Voyager is managed for NASA by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
For more information about Voyager, visit http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Name | Value | Additional Values |
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Target | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
System | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune | |
Target Type | Planet | |
Mission | Voyager | |
Instrument Host | Voyager 1 | |
Host Type | Flyby Spacecraft | |
Instrument | ||
Detector | ||
Extra Keywords | Color | |
Acquisition Date | ||
Release Date | 2017-07-05 | |
Date in Caption | 1977-09-05 | |
Image Credit | NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC | |
Source | photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21747 | |
Identifier | PIA21747 |