Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. [6] Pioneer 10 became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System.

Nov 6, 2024 · Pioneer 10 was NASA's first mission to the outer planets. The mission was a spectacular success and the spacecraft notched a series of firsts unmatched by any other robotic spacecraft to date.

Dec 22, 2023 · NASA officially ended Pioneer 10's mission on March 31, 1997, after the probe was well out of the range to transmit any useful data from its instruments. By now, the probe's power supplies were beginning to drain after twenty years in space.

Pioneer 10 was the first Spacecraft to visit Jupiter and the first to traverse the Asteroid belt and to achieve solar system escape velocity and is now heading out of the Solar System. It was launched in 1972 and began photographing Jupiter from November, 1973.

Mar 2, 2022 · On Nov. 6, 1973, while still 16 million miles from Jupiter, Pioneer 10 began to image the giant planet with the photopolarimeter, and shortly thereafter began to take measurements with its other instruments as well.

Mar 23, 2003 · After more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10 spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth. Pioneer's last, very weak signal was received on 23 January 2003.

As of 01 January 1997 Pioneer 10 was at about 67 AU from the Sun near the ecliptic plane and heading outward from the Sun at 2.6 AU/year and downstream through the heliomagnetosphere towards the tail region and interstellar space.

Dec 3, 2018 · Built by TRW Systems in Redondo Beach, California, and managed by NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to explore the solar system’s largest planet Jupiter.

NASA’s Pioneer 10 mission launched on March 2, 1972, followed by Pioneer 11 on April 5, 1973. Pioneer 10 is credited with being the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt and fly by …

Mar 2, 2022 · The quarter-ton, car-sized Pioneer 10 probe was NASA's first foray into the outer solar system, revolutionizing our picture of the gas giant Jupiter.