Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn

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1. Story
2. Passed within about 43,000 km of the cloud tops — closer than any craft before it — on a course that used the encounter to climb toward Saturn. Dated to the month; archives state the closest approach on 2 and 3 December 1974 in different time conventions. Encounter class: flyby.
3. Knowledge
4. Jupiter
5. Pioneer 11
6. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
7. Connections
8. Pioneer 11
9. Jupiter
10. Jupiter
11. Saturn
12. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
13. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
14. Voyager 1
15. Voyager 2
16. Io
17. The Grand Tour alignment
18. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
19. Active volcanism found on Io
20. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
21. Pioneer 10
22. Pioneer 11
23. Galileo
24. Cassini–Huygens
25. New Horizons
26. Juno
27. Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
28. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
29. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
30. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
31. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
32. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
33. Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
34. Evidence
35. Launch dates, Jupiter and Saturn encounter dates and end-of-contact record for the two outer-system Pioneers.