Pioneer 6 Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

16 Dec 1965, 7:31am

Pad

Space Launch Complex 17A

Launch Service Provider

Mission

Pioneer 6

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Destination

Heliocentric N/A

Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:54pm UTC

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