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P-3
Atlas-Able · Lunar Exploration
1959Space Launch Complex 14, Cape Canaveral
Mission
The Pioneer P-1, -3, -30 and -31 series was intended to be a lunar orbiter probe, but the mission failed shortly after launch. The objectives were to place a highly instrumented probe in lunar orbit, to investigate the environment between the Earth and Moon, and to develop technology for controlling and maneuvering spacecraft from Earth.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Atlas-Able
- Orbit
- LO
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 14
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2