1965 · United States Air Force
Pioneer 6
successThor Delta E | Pioneer 6
Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 16, 1965 at 07:31 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- Pioneer 6
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Heliocentric N/A