Voyager 1 launches

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1. Story
2. Voyager 1 lifted off from the same pad on the same vehicle type, on a shorter, faster trajectory to Jupiter and Saturn. Both spacecraft carried a copy of the Golden Record and three radioisotope thermoelectric generators supplying about 470 watts between them, and both were designed against a primary mission of roughly five years.
3. Knowledge
4. Voyager 1
5. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
6. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
7. Titan IIIE-Centaur
8. The Voyager Golden Record
9. Voyager 1 launches
10. Connections
11. Voyager 1
12. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
13. Titan IIIE-Centaur
14. The Voyager Golden Record
15. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
16. The Grand Tour alignment
17. Voyager 2
18. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
19. Titan
20. NASA Deep Space Network
21. Gravity assist
22. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
23. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
24. Jupiter
25. Saturn
26. Titan
27. Voyager high-gain antenna
28. Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS)
29. Titan IIIE-Centaur
30. Edward C. Stone
31. The Voyager Golden Record
32. Carl Sagan
33. Pale Blue Dot
34. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
35. Voyager 1 launches
36. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
37. Active volcanism found on Io
38. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
39. Voyager 1 photographs the solar system from outside it
40. Voyager 1 crosses the termination shock at about 94 AU
41. Voyager 1 crosses the heliopause at 121.6 AU
42. The 2012 crossing is confirmed from plasma oscillations
43. Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem is switched off
44. Voyager 1's low-energy charged particle instrument due for shutdown
45. Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth
46. Voyager 1
47. Voyager 2
48. Voyager 2 launches
49. Voyager 1 launches
50. Voyager 1
51. Voyager 2
52. Voyager 2 launches
53. Voyager 1 launches
54. Carl Sagan
55. Voyager 1
56. Voyager 2
57. Voyager 1 launches
58. Voyager 1
59. Voyager 2
60. Plutonium-238
61. Voyager 1 launches
62. Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem is switched off
63. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
64. Voyager 1's low-energy charged particle instrument due for shutdown
65. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2
66. Evidence
67. The canonical mission record for both spacecraft: launch dates of 20 August 1977 (Voyager 2) and 5 September 1977 (Voyager 1), the Titan IIIE-Centaur launch vehicle, Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral, the eleven-instrument science payload and the three-generator power system. V55 verification basis: THE CATALOGUE WAS NOT REACHED. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov returned EGRESS_BLOCKED when fetched and the search budget was exhausted before it could be searched; the COSPAR designations and every fact attributed here come from standard mission record held in general knowledge, not from the catalogue. This record names where a curator should check, not what was checked.