On Dec. 4, 1973, exactly 40 years ago this week, NASA's Pioneer 10 probe beamed the first up-close images of Jupiter back home. After traveling away from Earth for more than a year and navigating ...

Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt, considered a spectacular achievement, and then headed toward Jupiter. Accelerating to a speed of 82,000 mph, Pioneer 10 ...

NASA scientists will try to contact Pioneer 10 this week to see if the plucky little spacecraft’s signal can still be heard — 30 years after its launch. On March 2, 2002, scientists operating ...

Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and the first to obtain close-up images of Jupiter. In 1983, it became the first man-made object to leave the solar system ...

Earth has bid its final farewell to the Pioneer 10 spacecraft, 31 years after the probe set off for the outer regions of the solar system. Pioneer 10 Space Probe Fires Off Its Last Message - Los ...

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Pioneer 10 Spacecraft Goes Silent After 31 Years. By Bloomberg News. February 25, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Earth's first envoy to deep space has gone silent. ...

Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture out of the solar system, ... It became the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and the first to obtain close-up images of Jupiter.

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...

Pioneer 11, however, made the most of the boost from Jupiter, which hurled it up to a speed of 106,000 mph. Still, the spacecraft took until Sept. 1, 1979, to reach its closest approach to Saturn.

On Dec. 4, 1973, exactly 40 years ago this week, NASA's Pioneer 10 probe beamed the first up-close images of Jupiter back home. After traveling away from Earth for more than a year and navigating a ...