United States Air Force

Pioneer 9

Thor Delta E1

SUCCESS
Success

Friday, November 8, 1968 · 09:46 UTC

Mission

/01

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.

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Orbit

Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Thor Delta E1

Variant: Delta E1

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 17B

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.446° N, 80.566° W

34

Pad Launches

224

Location Launches

468

Agency Launches

111

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