Pioneer 11

Pioneer 11 — spacecraft, explore its interactive 3D model in Cosmoscope.

Explore Pioneer 11 in a 3D Solar System. Follow its published mission trajectory and inspect its distance and spacecraft facts.

First to fly past Saturn, threading between the planet and its rings in 1979. Its signal fell silent in 1995; like its twin it carries a plaque showing where it came from.

Launched

5 Apr 1973

Status

Silent since 1995, heading toward the constellation Aquila

Explore Pioneer 11 in 3D

Explore Pioneer 11 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.