Pioneer P-31
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Pioneer P-31 was intended to be a lunar orbiter probe, but the mission failed shortly after launch. The objectives were to place a highly instrumented probe in lunar orbit, to investigate the environm
Pioneer P-31 lunar probe
Atlas-Able booster rocket launching Pioneer P-31 on December 15, 1960
Payload fit check for Atlas Able moon probe
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-31
…TRW Launch mass 175.0 kilograms (385.8 lb) Start of mission Launch date 15 December 1960, 09:10 UTC Rocket Atlas D Able Launch site Cape Canaveral LC-12 Pioneer Pioneer P-31 (also known as Atlas-Able 5B or Pioneer Z) was intended to be a lunar orbiter probe, but the mission failed shortly after launch…
Atlas D with FIRE 1 at LC-12