Pioneer 10
NASA space probe launched in March 1972
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Summary
Pioneer 10 is a flyby probe[1].
Key Facts
- Country: United States[2]
- Operator: Ames Research Center[3]
- Follows: Pioneer 9[4]
- Followed by: Pioneer 11[5]
- Manufacturer: TRW Inc.[6]
- Part of: Pioneer program[7]
- Space launch vehicle: Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D[8]
- UTC date of spacecraft launch: March 3, 1973[9]
- Significant event: rocket launch[10], planetary flyby[11], flyby[12], loss of signal[13]
- Described by source: Retro Space HD[14]
- Start point: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36[15]
- Height: 25.5[16]
- Width: 71[17]
- Speed: 16.65[18]
- Mass: 258[19]
- Nominal power output: 155[20]
- P14541: 3DJRx2[21]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for Pioneer 10 include Pioneer anomaly[22], an anomaly[23].
Why It Matters
Entities named for it include Pioneer anomaly[22], an anomaly[23].