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PIA01480: Voyager 2 Launch
NASA's Voyager 2 was launched on Aug. 20, 1977 from the NASA Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida where it was propelled into space on a Titan/Centaur rocket.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  VG Imaging Science Subsystem 
 Product Size:  2012 x 2994 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P19480  
 Addition Date:  1998-10-30 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01480.tif (17.25 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01480.jpg (444 kB)  

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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.

JPL manages and controls the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1998-10-30