Pioneer 3

Pioneer 3 was a spacecraft of the U.S. Space Agency NASA as part of the Pioneer program. You should take pictures of the moon, but did not reach the required speed and burned up during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

Construction

Pioneer 3 consisted of a conical fiberglass structure of 58 cm height and 25 cm in diameter, the tip of which was designed as an antenna. The exterior was gold coated in order to render them electrically conductive, and is provided for thermal control with white stripes. The probe was supplied by mercury batteries and wore a transmitter with a power of 0.18 W at 960.05 MHz. To reduce the spin rate of 400 rpm on 6/min two ejectable mass of 7 g each ( " yo-yo masses " ) were attached on the outside.

Mission

Pioneer 3 was launched on December 6, 1958 at 05:45 UTC by a Juno II rocket. The probe should pass the moon and go into a heliocentric orbit. It reached a height of only 102,360 km before it again crashed back to earth because of burnout was too early. As an alternative program of the Van Allen radiation belt was measured by means of two Geiger- Müller counter tubes and tested the release of the lunar camera.

External links and sources

  • Pioneer 3 in the master catalog of NASA

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