Pioneer P-30
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Pioneer P-30 was intended to be a lunar orbiter probe, but the mission failed shortly after launch on September 25, 1960. The objectives were to place a highly instrumented probe in lunar orbit, to in
Pioneer P-30 lunar probe
Launch of Atlas-Able 5A carrying Pioneer P-30
Launch Complex 12 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida was a launch pad used by Atlas rockets and missiles between 1958 and 1967. It was the second-most southern of the pads known as Missile
Pioneer P-30
…Laboratories Launch mass 175.5 kg (387 lb) Start of mission Launch date 25 September 1960, 15:13:00 UTC Rocket Atlas D-Able Launch site Cape Canaveral, LC-12 Orbital parameters Apogee altitude 1,290 kilometres (800 mi) Pioneer Pioneer P-30 (also known as Able 5A, Atlas-Able 5A, or Pioneer Y) was intended to…
Atlas D with FIRE 1 at LC-12