The Pioneer Voyage

The Pioneer Missions

The Pioneer missions were the first to pass by Jupiter and Saturn. They toke many pictures and there were 10 pioneer missions to space. There is one pioneer that is orbiting Saturn. These were like the Mars rover in a way.

 

 

 

 

 

The pioneer spacecraft was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt. It entered July 15,1972. It made many observations of Jupiter. it passed by Jupiter on December 3 1973. This spacecraft was approved in 1969.

 

 

 

Above are some pictures of The orbiter itself and the pathway around Jupiter it takes.

TThe picture above is a picture taken by the Pioneer Spacecraft of Saturn.

This above is a picture of a galaxy in which the pioneer is exploring right now.

  Here is a drawing of the Pioneer exploring many stars.

 

    This is a picture of the spacecraft being built in the NASA work station.

    of these pictures are actually drawings because this planet is over 50,000,000 miles away from the sun This is one of the many pictures of Jupiter but most  and over 30,000,000 miles away from earth.

    This is one of the many different rough sketches of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft.

Pioneer 10 (Pioneer-F) was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, which it entered on July 15, 1972, and to make direct observations of Jupiter, which it passed by on December 3, 1973. It was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 36A on March 2, 1972. Pioneer 10 is heading in the direction of Aldebaran, located in Taurus. By some definitions, Pioneer 10 has become the first artificial object to leave the solar system (third cosmic velocity).[clarify] It is surely the first human-built object to have been set upon a trajectory leading out of the solar system. However, it still[when?] has not passed the heliopause or Oort cloud.

Its objectives were to study the interplanetary and planetary magnetic fields; solar wind parameters; cosmic rays; transition region of the heliosphere; neutral hydrogen abundance; distribution, size, mass, flux, and velocity of dust particles; Jovian aurorae; Jovian radio waves; atmosphere of Jupiter and some of its satellites, particularly Io; and to photograph Jupiter and its satellites.

    Above is a picture of pioneer 1. As you can see, from pioneer 1-10 there is a big difference in how they both look. Pioneer 1 looks like it's from the 18th century and the Pioneer 10 looks like it's from the 22nd century. This is because in between the years that they were made, there were many material upgrades that were put on the spacecrafts with the help of the scientists that discovered many new metals that are malleable enough or have enough ductility that they can be easily formed into their desired shape for the spacecraft.

    Above is an actual picture of the Pioneer Rocket.

    This is a diagram of one of the coolest spacecrafts in the world...PIONEER 10!

    The picture above is of the bottom half of the pioneer rocket. This rocket was very special because it had to launch a probe over 30,000,000 miles!