Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 - Payloads

Payloads

In addition to satellites, Titan vehicles launched several probes from LC-41 in the 1970s, including the Helios probes to study the Sun, the Viking probes to Mars, and the Voyager planetary flyby and deep space probes. More recent probes have also been launched from LC-41 using the Atlas V: the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in December 2004, the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto in January 2006, Juno mission to Jupiter in August 2011, and Mars Science Laboratory to Mars in November 2011.

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