Payload
PIONEER 1
DecayedPayload
Pioneer 1 was an American space probe, the first under the auspices of NASA, which was launched by a Thor-Able rocket on 11 October 1958. It was intended to orbit the Moon and make scientific measurements, but due to a guidance error failed to achieve lunar orbit and was ultimately destroyed upon reentering Earth's atmosphere. The flight, which lasted 43 hours and reached an apogee of 113,800 km, was the second and most successful of the three Thor-Able space probes.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 11, 1958 at 08:42 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Able I →
- Operator
- Army Ballistic Missile Agency
- Mission
- Pioneer 1
- Launch record
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Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1958-007A
- NORAD catalog №
- 110
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 12, 1958
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 12, 1958
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed