Voyager 2 launches

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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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