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The Voyager 2 aboard Titan III-Centaur launch vehicle lifted off on August 20, 1977.


pace probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, as a part of the Voyager program. It was launched on a trajectory towards the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and enabled further encounters with the ice giants Uranus and Neptune.

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