Pioneer 11
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Pioneer 11 is a NASA robotic space probe launched on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, the solar wind, and cosmic rays. It was the first probe to en
An artist's impression of a Pioneer spacecraft on its way to interstellar space.
Reconstructed full-scale mock-up Pioneer 10 / 11 spacecraft at the National Air and Space Museum
Side view of the spacecraft
Pioneer 11 during the installation of its protective shroud
Pioneer 10
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Pioneer 10 is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. It was the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt and the first of five artificial obj
Pioneer 11
…September 30, 1995, and the last good engineering data was received on November 24, 1995. Approved in February 1969, Pioneer 11 and its twin spacecraft, Pioneer 10, were the first probes designed to explore the outer Solar System. Early mission objectives, developed from proposals made throughout the 1960s, were…
Pioneer 10 in the final stages of construction (December 1971)
Pioneer 10 tested in a space simulation chamber (January 1972)
Pioneer 10 on a Star-37E kick motor just prior to being encapsulated for launch (February 1972)