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Voyager 2 lifted off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on a Titan IIIE-Centaur, sixteen days before its twin, on the slower trajectory that kept the option of Uranus and Neptune open. The numbering is counter-intuitive for exactly this reason: the spacecraft launched second was placed on the faster path and overtook this one before Jupiter.

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  1. Story
  2. Voyager 2 lifted off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on a Titan IIIE-Centaur, sixteen days before its twin, on the slower trajectory that kept the option of Uranus and Neptune open. The numbering is counter-intuitive for exactly this reason: the spacecraft launched second was placed on the faster path and overtook this one before Jupiter.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Voyager 2
  5. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
  6. Titan IIIE-Centaur
  7. Voyager 2 launches
  8. Connections
  9. Voyager 2
  10. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
  11. Titan IIIE-Centaur
  12. Voyager 1
  13. The Grand Tour alignment
  14. Multi-Hundred-Watt radioisotope thermoelectric generator
  15. DSS-43, Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex
  16. Gravity assist
  17. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  18. Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral
  19. Jupiter
  20. Neptune
  21. Saturn
  22. Uranus
  23. Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS)
  24. Titan IIIE-Centaur
  25. Edward C. Stone
  26. The Voyager Golden Record
  27. The full Grand Tour is cancelled and rebuilt as a two-spacecraft mission
  28. Voyager 2 launches
  29. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
  30. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
  31. Voyager 2 reaches Uranus — the only close encounter ever made
  32. Voyager 2 passes Neptune and Triton, ending the planetary programme
  33. Voyager 2 crosses the termination shock at about 84 AU
  34. Voyager 2 crosses the heliopause at 119 AU
  35. Voyager 2's low-energy charged particle instrument is switched off
  36. The "Big Bang" power manoeuvre on Voyager 2
  37. Voyager 1
  38. Voyager 2
  39. Voyager 2 launches
  40. Voyager 1 launches
  41. Voyager 1
  42. Voyager 2
  43. Voyager 2 launches
  44. Voyager 1 launches
  45. Evidence
  46. 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.
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