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Titan IIIE
Launched 1977-08-20 14:29:44 UTCSpace Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Solar Escape Trajectory
Worldwide
79th
orbital launch attempt in 1977
Lockheed Martin
1st
launch this year
Space Launch Complex 41
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
583 d 8 h
since the pad's previous launch
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.
Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.
Launches
80
Successful
77
96%
Upcoming
0
scheduled
Height
48.8m
Diameter
3m
To low Earth orbit
15,400kg
Liftoff thrust
12,991kN
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