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    Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a NASA robotic space probe launched on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter...
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    The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminum plaques that were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring...
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    had a thick atmosphere—a feature unique among the Solar System's moons. Pioneer 11 made the first flyby of Saturn in September 1979, when it passed within...
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    Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10...
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  • The Pioneer anomaly, or Pioneer effect, was the observed deviation from predicted accelerations of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 spacecraft after they...
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    functioning and are regularly contacted by radio communication, while Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 are now derelict. In addition to these spacecraft, some upper...
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    Saturn, and two to explore Venus. The two outer planet probes, Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11, became the first two of five artificial objects to achieve the...
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    Pioneer Corporation (パイオニア株式会社, Paionia Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly referred to as Pioneer, is a Japanese multinational corporation based in Tokyo, that...
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    of the planet. Pioneer 11's closest approach to Saturn occurred in September 1979 at a distance of 20,900 km (13,000 mi). Pioneer 11 was responsible...
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    launched by the American space agency NASA: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11 and New Horizons. Also as of 2024, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are the...
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    Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9 were space probes in the Pioneer program, launched between 1965 and 1969. They were a series of solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized...
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    overtook Pioneer 10 as the second most distant human-made object from the Sun. Pioneer 11, launched a year after Pioneer 10, took similar data as Pioneer out...
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    January 2013. Krebs, Gunter. "Pioneer 10, 11, H". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 6 January 2013. "Solar System Exploration - Pioneer 10". NASA. Archived from...
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  • replica of the Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 probes. Pioneer Venus Orbiter, a mission to Venus from 1978 to October 1992, officially designated Pioneer 12. This...
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    Io (moon) (section Pioneer)
    Pioneer 10". Science. 183 (4122): 322–323. Bibcode:1974Sci...183..322A. doi:10.1126/science.183.4122.322. PMID 17821098. S2CID 36510719. "Pioneer 11 Images...
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    of missions to the outer planets article. Saturn was first visited by Pioneer 11 in September 1979. It flew within 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) of the...
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    "The Pioneer Missions". NASA. March 26, 2007. Archived from the original on December 23, 2018. Retrieved February 26, 2021. "NASA Glenn Pioneer Launch...
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    Voyager 1 (redirect from Mariner 11)
    moon, which had long been known to have an atmosphere. Images taken by Pioneer 11 in 1979 had indicated the atmosphere was substantial and complex, further...
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    Pioneer 10 spacecraft was the first one to use the gravitational slingshot effect to reach escape velocity to leave Solar System. Pioneer 11 Pioneer 11...
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    environment. The first spacecraft to visit Jupiter was Pioneer 10 in 1973, followed a year later by Pioneer 11. Aside from taking the first close-up pictures...
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    was selected due to the interest developed after the images taken by Pioneer 11 in 1979, which had indicated the atmosphere of the moon was substantial...
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    Tethys has been approached and observed by several space probes, including Pioneer 11 (1979), Voyager 1 (1980) and Voyager 2 (1981), with Cassini-Huygens observing...
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    close to Ganymede was Pioneer 10, which performed a flyby in 1973 as it passed through the Jupiter system at high speed. Pioneer 11 made a similar flyby...
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    S2CID 267546453. "Pioneer 11 Full Mission Timeline". Dmuller.net. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2012. Young, Kelly (11 February...
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  • from Mars. However, no other dedicated dust instrumentation on Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Galileo, Ulysses, nor Cassini found an indication that Mars is...
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    The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12, was a mission to Venus conducted by NASA as part of the Pioneer Venus project...
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    2027 and 2028, future Pioneer program Pioneer 10, launched March 1972, completed – first to the asteroid belt and Jupiter Pioneer 11, launched April 1973...
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  • Division I–AA/FCS 1925–1950: Independent 1951–2007: No team 2008–2017: Pioneer Football League 2018–2022: Big South Conference 2023–present: CAA Football...
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    of the star cluster range from 3,700 M☉ to 11,000 M☉. The space probe Pioneer 11 is moving in the direction of this constellation. It will not near the...
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  • dynamics Pioneer anomaly, the observed deviation of the trajectories of some uncrewed space probes, and especially Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 South Atlantic...
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