1960 · United States Air Force
Pioneer V
successThor Able IV | Pioneer V
Pioneer 5 was a spin-stabilized space probe in the NASA Pioneer program used to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 11, 1960 at 01:00 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- Pioneer V
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Heliocentric N/A