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* Pioneer 0 ( Thor-Able 1, Pioneer ) – Lunar orbiter, destroyed ( Thor failure 77 seconds after launch ) August 17, 1958
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Pioneer and 0
* 1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails.
Pioneer 0 ( also known as Thor-Able 1 ) was a failed United States space probe that was designed to go into orbit around the Moon, carrying a television camera, a micrometeorite detector and a magnetometer, as part of the first International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) science payload.
Pioneer 0 was launched on Thor missile number 127 at 12: 18: 00 UTC on August 17, 1958 by the United States Air Force, only 4 minutes after the scheduled launch time.
Space Technology Laboratories ( STL ), then a division of Ramo-Wooldridge Corp., designed and produced the identical payloads for Pioneer 0, 1 and 2.
Occidental Park, also referred to as Occidental Square ( north of S. Main Street ) and Occidental Mall ( south of S. Main Street ), is a 0. 6 acre ( 2, 400 m² ) public park located in the Pioneer Square district of Seattle, Washington.
The racial makeup of Pioneer was 1, 017 ( 93. 0 %) White, 0 ( 0. 0 %) African American, 34 ( 3. 1 %) Native American, 1 ( 0. 1 %) Asian, 2 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 12 ( 1. 1 %) from other races, and 28 ( 2. 6 %) from two or more races.
Pioneer and Thor-Able
* Pioneer 1 ( Thor-Able 2, Pioneer I ) – Lunar orbiter, missed Moon ( third stage partial failure ) October 11, 1958
* Pioneer 2 ( Thor-Able 3, Pioneer II ) – Lunar orbiter, reentry ( third stage failure ) November 8, 1958
* Pioneer 5 ( Pioneer P-2, Thor-Able 4, Pioneer V ) – interplanetary space between Earth and Venus, launched March 11, 1960
WFGA-TV was the first television station to air a live launch from Cape Canaveral on October 11, 1958 – a Thor-Able ’ s successful launch of the Pioneer I lunar probe.
Pioneer and 1
Pioneer 1, recorded a decrease in flux with distance from the Earth on the basis of 11 counts in 9 hours.
The four most distant spacecraft ( Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 ) are on course to leave the Solar System.
* 1958 – Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 ( the probe falls back to Earth and burns up ).
Sedna's orbit ( left ) is longer than 100 Tm, but other lengths are between 10 and 100 Tm: Comet Hale-Bopp's orbit ( lower, faint orange ); one light-day ( yellow spherical shell with yellow Vernal point arrow as radius ); the heliosphere's Heliosphere # Termination shock | termination shock ( blue shell ); and other arrows show positions of Voyager 1 ( red ) and Pioneer 10 ( green ).
Only a handful of interstellar probes, such as Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and New Horizons, are currently on trajectories that leave our Solar System.
Pioneer pastoralists, often men with experience as squatters in Australia, leased lands from the government at the annual rate of £ 5 plus £ 1 for each 1, 000 sheep above the first 5, 000.
During the 1990s, Voyager 1 overtook the slower deep-space probes Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 to become the most distant manmade object from Earth, a record that it will keep for the foreseeable future.
Voyager 1 and Pioneer 10 are the most widely separated manmade objects anywhere, since they are traveling in roughly opposite directions from the Solar System.
Several spacecraft ( Mariner 10, Pioneer 11, and Voyagers 1 and 2 ) had performed gravity assist manoeuvres in the 1970s.
Pioneer and –
* 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune ( the furthest planet from the Sun at the time ).
* 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
* Pioneer P-3 ( Atlas-Able 4, Atlas-Able 4B, Pioneer X ) – Lunar probe, lost in launcher failure November 26, 1959
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