LaunchesPioneer 4
NASASUCCESS
Pioneer 4
Juno II · Lunar Exploration
1959Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Pioneer 4 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft intended as a lunar probe and successfully performed a fly by of the moon at a height of 58983km. Unfortunately it didn't come close enough to trigger its photoelectric sensor.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Juno II
- Orbit
- Lunar flyby
- Pad
- Launch Complex 5
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2