Pioneer 10

Pioneer 10 — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Pioneer 10 in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

The first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and fly past Jupiter. Contact was lost in 2003; it now drifts silently toward the star Aldebaran, arriving in about two million years.

Launched

2 Mar 1972

Status

Silent since 2003, coasting toward Aldebaran

Explore Pioneer 10 in 3D

Explore Pioneer 10 along its published mission trajectory in the 3D Solar System. The model uses the available ephemeris interval; historical missions are not active spacecraft and extrapolations beyond an ephemeris interval are approximate.