Pioneer E

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 27 Aug 1969, 09:59 pm UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta L (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 A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.