COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Solarsystem Collection
Record
title:
Pioneer 1
description:
Pioneer 1, the second and most successful of three project Able space probes and the first spacecraft launched by the newly formed NASA, was intended to study the ionizing radiation, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and micrometeorites in the vicinity of the Earth and in lunar orbit. Due to a launch vehicle malfunction, the spacecraft attained only a ballistic trajectory and never reached the Moon. It did return data on the near-Earth space environment. *Image Credit*: NASA
date:
10.11.1958
keywords:
JPL
facet_what:
Earth
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_when:
10-11-1958
facet_when_year:
1958
UID:
SPD-SLRSY-1888
