Status
Success
Pioneer 4
Launch Time
Tue Mar 03, 1959 05:10 UTC
Tue Mar 03, 1959 05:10 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Pioneer 4
Pioneer 4 was launched by the U.S. to photograph the Moon during a close flyby. It didn’t achieve that goal but it did become the first American spacecraft to escape Earth’s gravity and the nation's first probe to enter heliocentric orbit.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 6.0 kg
Trans Lunar Injection
Location
LC-5, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1959
4th orbital launch attempt
Juno II
2nd mission
1st mission of 1959
1st successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission