Pioneer V

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 11 Mar 1960, 01:00 pm UTC

Rocket: Thor Able IV (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Heliocentric N/A

Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Pioneer 5 was a spin-stabilized space probe in the NASA Pioneer program used to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.