Pioneer P-30 (Able 5A / Pioneer Y), a NASA lunar-orbiter probe, launched on an Atlas-Able from Cape Canaveral LC-12 on 25 September 1960. After Atlas stage separation the Able second stage suffered an oxidizer-system failure, and the ~175 kg spacecraft burned up short of Earth escape.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Atlas-Able flights
- Date and time
- 25 September 1960, 15:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas-Able
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Lunar Exploration
- Launches in 1960
- 23rd of 38