| Time
(UTC/GMT+0) | | Event |
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| 1973-04-06 02:11:00 | | Launch |
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| 1974-12-03 08:21 | | Callisto flyby (786,500km) |
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| 1974-12-03 22:09 | | Ganymede flyby (692,300km) |
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| 1974-12-04 03:11 | | Io flyby (314,000km) |
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| 1974-12-04 04:15 | | Europa flyby (586,700km) |
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| 1974-12-04 05:00:21 | | Jupiter shadow entry |
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| 1974-12-04 05:01:01 | | Jupiter occultation entry |
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| 1974-12-04 05:21:19 | | Jupiter Flyby (altitude 42,828km) |
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| 1974-12-04 05:33:52 | | Jupiter shadow exit |
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| 1974-12-04 05:43:03 | | Jupiter occultation exit |
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| 1974-12-04 22:29 | | Amalthea flyby (127,500km) |
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| 1977-11-01 | | Saturn flyby strategy defined |
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| 1978-07-13 | | Trim maneuvre to set up Saturn flyby |
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| 1979-08-28 13:26:19 | | Precession adjustment maneuvre |
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| 1979-08-28 17:46:32 | | Precession adjustment maneuvre |
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| 1979-08-29 06:06:10 | | Iapetus closest approach (1,032,535km) |
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| 1979-08-29 11:53:33 | | Phoebe closest approach (13,713,574km) |
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| 1979-08-31 12:32:33 | | Hyperion closest approach (666,153km) |
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| 1979-09-01 14:26:56 | | Descending ring plane crossing |
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| 1979-09-01 14:50:51 | | Radiation instruments readings plunge to nearly zero |
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| 1979-09-01 14:50:55 | | Epimetheus closest approach (6,676km) |
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| 1979-09-01 14:50:59 | | Radiation instruments back to previous levels. Exit wake of as then undiscovered moon. |
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| 1979-09-01 15:06:32 | | Atlas closest approach (45,960km) |
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| 1979-09-01 15:59:30 | | Dione closest approach (291,556km) |
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| 1979-09-01 16:26:28 | | Mimas closest approach (104,263km) |
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| 1979-09-01 16:29:34 | | Saturn Flyby (altitude: 20,591km) |
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| 1979-09-01 16:35 | | Saturn occultation entry |
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| 1979-09-01 16:35:57 | | Saturn shadow entry |
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| 1979-09-01 16:51:11 | | Janus closest approach (228,988km) |
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| 1979-09-01 17:53:32 | | Saturn occultation exit |
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| 1979-09-01 17:54:47 | | Saturn shadow exit |
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| 1979-09-01 18:21:59 | | Ascending ring plane crossing |
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| 1979-09-01 18:25:34 | | Tethys closest approach (329,197km) |
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| 1979-09-01 18:30:14 | | Enceladus closest approach (222,027km) |
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| 1979-09-01 20:04:13 | | Calypso closest approach (109,916km) |
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| 1979-09-01 22:15:27 | | Rhea closest approach (345,303km) |
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| 1979-09-02 18:00:33 | | Titan closest approach (362,962km) |
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| 1995-09-30 | | End of science mission |
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| 1995-11-30 | | Last signal received |
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| 2009-09-01 16:34 | | 30th anniversary of Saturn flyby |
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| 2013-04-06 02:11:00 | | 40 years of flight |
| 2013-06-20 08:52:01 | | = = = Current Time = = = |
| tbd | | in 4 million years: Lambda Aquilla flyby |