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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Saturn (section Pioneer 11 flyby)
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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Interstellar probe (section Pioneer 11 (1973–1995))
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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Exploration of Saturn (section Pioneer 11 flyby)
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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