Planetary Science
PIONEER 6
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Pioneer 6, 7, 8, and 9 were space probes in the Pioneer program, launched between 1965 and 1969. They were a series of solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar cell- and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements on a continuing basis of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space. They were also known as Pioneer A, B, C, and D. The fifth was lost in a launch accident, and therefore did not receive a numerical designation.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 16, 1965 at 07:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta E →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Pioneer 6
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 63.03 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-105A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1841
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 0.0035 m²
- Status
- active