Pioneer program
The
American Pioneer program of
unmanned space missions was designed for planetary exploration. There were a number of such missions in the program, but the most notable were
Pioneer 10 and
Pioneer 11, which explored the outer planets and left the
solar system. Both carry a golden plaque (see
Pioneer plaque), depicting a man and a woman and information about the origin and the creators of the probes, should any
extraterrestrials find them someday.
- Pioneer 0 - Lunar orbiter, destroyed in launcher failure (Able 1)\n*Pioneer 1 - Lunar orbiter, missed Moon due to launcher failure (Able 2)\n*Pioneer 2 - Lunar orbiter, destroyed in launcher failure (Able 3)\n*Pioneer 3 - Lunar flyby, missed Moon due to launcher failure\n*Pioneer 4 - Lunar flyby, achieved Earth escape velocity\n*Pioneer X - Lunar probe, lost in launcher failure\n*Pioneer Y - Lunar probe, failed to achieve lunar obit\n*Pioneer Z - Lunar probe, lost in upper stage failure\n*Pioneer 5 - interplanetary space between Earth and Venus\n*Pioneer 6, 7, 8 and 9 - interplanetary space "weather network"\n*Pioneer A - interplanetary space "weather network"\n*Pioneer B - interplanetary space "weather network"\n*Pioneer C - interplanetary space "weather network"\n*Pioneer D - interplanetary space "weather network"\n*Pioneer E - interplanetary space "weather network", lost in launcher failure\n*Pioneer 10 - Jupiter, interstellar space\n*Pioneer 11 - Jupiter, Saturn, interstellar space\n*Pioneer H - identical to Pioneers 10 and 11 (F & G)\n*Pioneer Venus 1 - the Pioneer Venus Orbiter of the Pioneer Venus project (Pioneer 12)\n*Pioneer Venus 2 - the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe of the Pioneer Venus project (Pioneer 13)\n*Pioneer Venus Probe 1 - part of the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe\n*Pioneer Venus Probe 2 - part of the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe\n*Pioneer Venus Probe 3 - part of the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe\n*Pioneer Venus Probe 4 - part of the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe
- Pioneer 1P
See also: Timeline of Planetary Exploration,
Able space probes
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