LaunchesPioneer 3
NASASUCCESS
Pioneer 3
Juno II · Lunar Exploration
1958Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Pioneer 3 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft intended as a lunar probe but failed to perform a lunar flyby as planned. Its mission was revised to measure radiation in the outer Van Allen radiation belts.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Juno II
- Orbit
- Lunar flyby
- Pad
- Launch Complex 5
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2