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Mission · NASA · Completed
Pioneer 10
- Launched —
- 1972-03-02
- Programme —
- Pioneer
Encounter order — not trajectory
- 1. 1973-12-03 · Jupiter · flybyPioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
An encounter sequence is the order the records give, not a flight path. Atlas holds no trajectory for these missions and draws none.
Dates are the operator’s mission record; none was network-verified in this production run, and the record says so.
Schematic · log-compressed · ranked discs · not an ephemeris — full statement →
Schematic view: distances are log-compressed (to true scale Neptune sits 30× Earth’s distance) and discs are ranked by size, not to scale. Positions computed from JPL mean orbital elements for today — an orientation good to a few degrees, not an ephemeris.
Data: NASA Planetary Fact Sheet · JPL approximate elements · JPL small-body database (1P/Halley).