Pioneer 5 (P-2 / Able 4), a NASA spin-stabilized interplanetary probe, launched on a Thor Able IV from Cape Canaveral into solar orbit between Earth and Venus; it returned the first map of the interplanetary magnetic field.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 43 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Thor Able IV flight
- Date and time
- 11 March 1960, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Able IV
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1960-001
- Launches in 1960
- 4th of 38
See it in orbit
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