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Pioneer 2
Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 8 Nov 1958, 07:30 am UTC
Rocket: Thor Able I (Thor)
Provider: Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Mission
Type: Lunar Exploration
Orbit: Lunar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
The third pioneer orbiter, pioneer 2 intended to enter lunar orbit but failed to make orbit when the third stage failed to ignite.