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Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
Crossed the asteroid belt intact and passed Jupiter at about 130,000 km, returning the first close images of the planet. Encounter class: flyby.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Pioneer 10 · mission · not located
- Jupiter · celestial body · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
NSSDCA master catalogue — Pioneer 10 and 11
Launch dates, Jupiter and Saturn encounter dates and end-of-contact record for the two outer-system Pioneers.
NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive · Partly verified
NSSDCA master catalogue, Pioneer 10 and 11 entries
Recorded on Pioneer 10
- Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter — the first spacecraft to reach the outer Solar System
- Pioneer 11 passes Jupiter, bending north toward Saturn
- Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter
- Active volcanism found on Io
- Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter
- Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter
- Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn
- Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission
- New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter
- Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter
Related
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- Juno enters polar orbit around Jupiter · 2016-07-05
- New Horizons takes a gravity assist at Jupiter · 2007-02-28
- Galileo is flown into Jupiter to end its mission · 2003-09-21
- Cassini passes Jupiter for a final speed boost toward Saturn · 2000-12-30
- Galileo enters orbit around Jupiter — the first outer-planet orbiter · 1995-12-07
- Voyager 2 closest approach to Jupiter · 1979-07-09
- Active volcanism found on Io · 1979-03-08
- Voyager 1 closest approach to Jupiter · 1979-03-05