Pioneer 11

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1. Story
2. The first spacecraft to reach Saturn; contact ended in 1995. Operated by NASA; launched 1973-04-05; completed. Encounter dates are the operator’s mission record; the encounter order is an order, not a trajectory, and Atlas draws no path for it.
3. Knowledge
4. Jupiter
5. Saturn
6. Pioneer 11
7. Connections
8. Jupiter
9. Saturn
10. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
11. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
12. Voyager 1
13. Voyager 2
14. Io
15. The Grand Tour alignment
16. Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
17. Active volcanism found on Io
18. Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
19. Pioneer 10
20. Pioneer 11
21. Galileo
22. Cassini–Huygens
23. New Horizons
24. Juno
25. Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
26. Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
27. Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
28. Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
29. Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
30. New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
31. Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
32. Voyager 1
33. Voyager 2
34. Titan
35. The Grand Tour alignment
36. Voyager 1 passes Saturn and Titan, and leaves the plane of the planets
37. Voyager 2 passes Saturn and continues towards Uranus
38. Pioneer 11
39. Cassini–Huygens
40. Pioneer 11 passes Saturn — the first spacecraft to reach it
41. Cassini enters orbit around Saturn
42. Cassini’s Grand Finale — flown into Saturn to end the mission
43. Evidence
44. Launch dates, Jupiter and Saturn encounter dates and end-of-contact record for the two outer-system Pioneers.