![]() Pioneer 10 was assembled around a hexagonal bus with a 2.74-meter diameter parabolic dish high-gain antenna, and the spacecraft was spin stabilized around the axis of the antenna. The project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in California, and the space probe was manufactured by TRW Inc. Thereafter, Pioneer 10 became the first artificial object to achieve the escape velocity that will allow it to leave the Solar System only five crafts including Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 & 2, and New Horizons have achieved that. ![]() It was launched in 1972 by an Atlas-Centaur expendable vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and weighing 258 kilograms. Today marks the 46th anniversary of the launch of Pioneer 10, the very first probe to complete a mission to Jupiter.
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