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	Pioneer 10 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, and was the first spacecraft to make direct observations of Jupiter.
		Pioneer 10 was also outfitted with a plaque to serve as a message for any extraterrestrial life, in the event that it may be discovered.
		Pioneer 10 is heading in the direction of the star Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pioneer_10 (653 words)

	Pioneer 10 & 11
		The third stage was required to rocket Pioneer 10 to the speed of 51,810 kph needed for the flight to Jupiter.
		During the passage by Jupiter, Pioneer 10 obtained the first close-up images of the planet, charted Jupiter's intense radiation belts, located the planet's magnetic field, and discovered that Jupiter is predominantly a liquid planet.
		As of February 1996, Pioneer 10 was at a distance of 9.5 billion kilometers from Earth.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/pn10-11.htm (1303 words)

	Pioneer plaque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On board each of the unmanned spacecraft Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 is a plaque with a pictorial message from mankind.
		The original idea, that the Pioneer spacecraft should carry a message from mankind, was first mentioned by Eric Burgess when he visited the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena during the Mariner 9 mission.
		The first plaque was launched with Pioneer 10 on March 2, 1972, and the second followed with Pioneer 11 on April 5, 1972.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pioneer_plaque (1291 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Pioneer 10 sends last signal
		Pioneer 10 reached a speed of 32,400 mph needed for the flight to Jupiter, making it the fastest human-made object to leave the Earth; fast enough to pass the moon in 11 hours and to cross Mars' orbit, about 50 million miles away, in just 12 weeks.
		Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt, considered a spectacular achievement, and then headed toward Jupiter.
		Pioneer 10 explored Jupiter, traveled twice as far as the most distant planet in our solar system, and as Earth's first emissary into space, is carrying a gold plaque that describes what we look like, where we are, and the date when the mission began.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0302/25pioneer10 (1054 words)

	Space Today Online -- The Pioneer spacecraft still are outbound
		Pioneer 10 was built by TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, California, and was launched March 2, 1972, from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on a three-stage Atlas-Centaur rocket.
		Pioneer 10 reached the speed of 32,400 mph needed for the flight to Jupiter, making it the fastest human-made object to leave the Earth — fast enough to pass the Moon in 11 hours and to cross the orbit of Mars 50 million miles away from Earth in just 12 weeks.
		Pioneer 10 is the farthest object from Earth flying in the opposite direction to which the Sun moves.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/ThePioneers.html (1693 words)

	Pioneer 10, 11 Quicklook
		Pioneers 10 and 11 were the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter (Pioneer 10 and 11) and Saturn (Pioneer 11 only).
		Pioneer 11's mission ended on September 30, 1995 when its RTG power level was insufficient to operate any experiments and the spacecraft could no longer be controlled.
		Pioneer 10 is expected to operate until sometime in 1997 when its power levels are also expected to fall below the minimum required levels.
	leonardo.jpl.nasa.gov /msl/QuickLooks/pioneer10QL.html (415 words)

	Pioneer
		Pioneer 10 is headed in the direction of the constellation Taurus.
		Pioneer 12 used radar to map the planet's surface, while Pioneer 13 deployed its four probes that were carried through the atmosphere by parachutes.
		Pioneer 12 orbited Venus for 14 years until it entered the atmosphere of Venus in 1992 and was destroyed.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/space_missions/pioneer.html (347 words)

	The Perils of Pioneer 11
		Pioneers 10 and 11 were originally conceived in 1969 as small, simple, spin-stabilized spacecraft for humanity's first venture into the outer Solar System.
		The Pioneers would be the first spacecraft to fly through the asteroid belt; there was no significant chance of hitting a large asteroid, but hitting a few hundred grains of sand would be almost as bad, and nobody knew how many small particles might lurk undetected in the belt.
		Pioneer 11's primary mission was to be the backup for Pioneer 10 -- if Pioneer 10 failed before completing its Jupiter flyby, Pioneer 11 would repeat that flyby.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/2099/9711.html (1986 words)

	Pioneer 10-11
		As of Jan. 1, 1997 Pioneer 10 was at about 67 AU from the Sun near the ecliptic plane and heading outward from the Sun at 2.6 AU/year and downstream through the heliomagnetosphere towards the tail region and interstellar space.
		Pioneer 11 was the second mission to investigate Jupiter and the outer solar system and the first to explore the planet Saturn and its main rings.
		Pioneer 10 was at 82 AU, or 12.3 billion km from Earth.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/pior1011.htm (1194 words)

	Pioneer Home Page: Describes the missions of Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and Pioneers 6 through 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Pioneer 10 weak signal continued to be tracked by the DSN as part of an advanced concept study of communication technology in support of NASA's future interstellar probe mission.
		Pioneer 10 was featured on the Star Date radio broadcast by the University of Texas McDonald Observatory on 2 March 2002 - the 30th anniversary of its launch.
		Pioneer 6 was featured on the Star Date radio broadcast by the University of Texas McDonald Observatory on 16 December 2000 - the 35th anniversary of its launch.
	spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov /Space_Projects/pioneer/PNhome.html (1083 words)

	Pioneer 10 Virtual Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pioneer 10 demonstrated that this was not the case, thereby opening the door for all future outer planetary missions.
		Pioneer 10 was the first ever to encounter Jupiter survive its intense radiation, and was the first probe to leave the realm of the planets and enter the edges of interstellar space for the first time in history!
		Prior to Pioneers 10 and 11, the effect of the solar wind was thought to extend to the vicinity of Jupiter or perhaps a bit farther.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /sso/cool/pioneer10/mission (1501 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Missions: By Year: 1970 - 1979: Pioneer 10
		Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt and reach the outer solar system, flying past Jupiter at a distance of about 130,354 km (81,000 miles) from the cloudtops.
		Pioneer 10's objectives were to directly observe and photograph Jupiter and its satellites, and measure the magnetosphere and radiation environment of the Jupiter system.
		Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to fly through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /missions/profile.cfm?Sort=Chron&StartYear=1970&EndYear=1979&MCode=Pioneer_10 (357 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Deep space probe says farewell
		Pioneer's last, very weak signal was received on 22 January, after which US space agency (Nasa) engineers reported that its power source had decayed such that it might not be capable of sending another message.
		Pioneer 10 was launched on 2 March, 1972, on a three-stage Atlas-Centaur rocket, reaching the speed of 52,150 km per hour needed for the flight to Jupiter.
		At last contact, Pioneer 10 was 12.2 billion km from Earth, or 82 times the normal distance between the Sun and the Earth.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2802041.stm (607 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: The Little Spacecraft that Could and Did -- Decades after their ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pioneer 10, missing, feared dead for eight months, was phoning home to let scientists know that it was still alive and kicking.
		But, as Lasher notes, "in retirement Pioneer 10 still served the public as a valuable space resource at no extra cost to the taxpayers." It has been used to train spacecraft controllers in tracking station protocol and continues to be tracked as a part of study in communication technology.
		One of the greatest surprises raised by the original Pioneer mission was, according to Lasher, the persistence of the solar wind, the stream of charged particles that radiates from the sun.
	www.scientificamerican.com /article.cfm?articleID=000D9901-6364-1D2F-96D7809EC588EEDF&catID=4 (806 words)

	CNN.com - Pioneer 10 falls silent after nearly 31 years - Feb. 25, 2003
		Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, has fallen silent after traveling billions of miles from Earth on a mission that has lasted nearly 31 years, NASA said Tuesday.
		At the time, Pioneer 10 was 7.6 billion miles from Earth; the signal, traveling at the speed of light, took 11 hours and 20 minutes to arrive.
		Pioneer 10 carries a gold plaque engraved with a message of goodwill and a map showing the Earth's location in the solar system.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/space/02/25/pioneer.10.ap (353 words)

	Pioneer Mission Description Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The third stage was required to rocket Pioneer 10 to the speed of 51,810 kilometers per hour (32,400 mph) needed for the flight to Jupiter.
		Accelerated by the massive giant to a speed of 132,000 km/hr (82,000 mph), Pioneer 10 passed by Jupiter within 130,354 km (81,000 miles) of the cloudtops on December 3, 1973.
		In September 1995, Pioneer 11 was at a distance of 6.5 billion km (4 billion miles) from Earth.
	spaceprojects.arc.nasa.gov /Space_Projects/pioneer/PN10&11.html (1386 words)

	NASA hears from Pioneer 10 spacecraft after eight-month silence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		NASA scientists said Sunday they have contacted the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, ending fears that the robotic probe had gone silent 29 years into a mission that has carried it more than 7 billion miles from Earth.
		Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and the first to obtain close-up images of Jupiter.
		The Pioneer 10 mission came to a formal close in 1997, but the probe had remained in fairly regular contact with Earth, returning limited scientific data before going silent in August.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story.mpl/content/interactive/space/news/2001/20010429.html (353 words)

	Study of the Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11
		This paper shows that the anomalous acceleration of the spacecraft Pioneer 10 and 11 in the direction of the Sun is due to the presence of dust in the Kuiper belt, which has been ignored in the calculation.
		AU), when the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft are in the Kuiper belt and move through it, we observe, as should be expected, that they move at an almost constant velocity in a direction away from the sun.
		That change of momentum of Pioneer 10 is due to the collision with dust in the Kuiper belt.
	www.newtonphysics.on.ca /Anomalous/Acceleration.html (2354 words)

	ScienceMaster - JumpStart - Pioneer - Going, Going...
		The Pioneer 10 weak signal continues to be tracked by the DSN as part of a new advanced concept study of chaos theory.
		Pioneer 10 is headed towards the constellation of Taurus (The Bull).
		After that Pioneer 10 will be on an orbital path in the Milky Way galaxy influenced by the field of the stars that it passes.
	www.sciencemaster.com /jump/space/pioneer.php (1240 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Pioneer 10 makes contact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		From a distance of almost 12 billion kilometres, Pioneer 10 has contacted Earth reporting that one of its instruments is still working 30 years after it was launched.
		Launched on 2 March, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and the first to take close-up images of Jupiter.
		Despite the formal end of the mission, Pioneer 10's weak signal continues to be tracked as part of an advanced concept study of communications technology.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/1853804.stm (401 words)

	Seven Billion Miles and Counting....
		Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2, 1972, from Cape Kennedy aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket.
		The unusual encounter happened as Pioneer 10 was exiting the realm of the planets and exploring for the first time the outer limits of the heliosphere -- a giant bubble carved out of the gaseous interstellar medium by the solar wind.
		Pioneer 10 is coasting at 13 km/s (28,000 miles per hour) toward the red star Aldebaran, which lies 71 light years away and shines 155 times more brightly than our own Sun.
	science.nasa.gov /headlines/y2001/ast03may_1.htm (1236 words)

	Pioneer 10 & 11 - Abstract
		Pioneer 10, which was launched in 1972, was the first probe sent to the outer planets.
		Before Pioneer 11 was launched, the gain and threshold settings of its starlight sensor were modified to improve performance on the basis of experience gained during the first few months of Pioneer 10's flight.
		Pioneer's path was calculated by use of celestial mechanics, and the radio data provided information to keep the trajectory updated and to determine the masses of planetary bodies the Pioneers encountered.
	www.tsgc.utexas.edu /archive/characterizations/pioneer10.html (1489 words)

	Six billion miles and counting.... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2, 1972 from Cape Kennedy aboard an Atlas Centaur rocket for a two-year mission to Jupiter.
		Pioneer is so low on power that its transmitter had to be turned off to allow it to execute the turn.
		Pioneer 10 is now exploring the outer limits of the heliosphere, a bubble carved out of the gaseous interstellar medium by the solar wind.
	www.spacescience.com /headlines/y2000/ast02mar_1.htm (1062 words)

	NASA - NASA Glenn Pioneer Launch History
		Glenn successfully managed the launch [1.2 Meg MPEG] of Pioneer 10: the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter, and the first man-made object to leave the solar system and travel on a flight path into interstellar space.
		Until February 1998, Pioneer 10 was the most remote object ever made by man. Traveling faster, Voyager 1 has since acheived a greater distance from the Sun.
		Pioneer 10's first challenge was to pass through what was initially feared to be an impenetrable asteroid belt.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/glenn/about/history/pioneer.html (678 words)

	Pioneer 10 lives on. \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
		Since Pioneer 10 is over 75 AU distant and its telemetry signal is virtually at the limit of overall communication system's link margin, the spacecraft was chosen as a convenient test vehicle for the new methodology of Chaos theory.
		Pioneers 1 through 5 were launched from 1958 through 1960 and made the first thrusts into space toward the Moon and into interplanetary orbit.
		Pioneer 4 was the first American spacecraft to escape Earth's gravitational pull as it passed within 58,983 km (36,650 miles) of the moon.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewnews.html?id=332 (3344 words)

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