Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
United States Air Force
Provider type
Government
Orbit
Helio-N/A
Mission type
Astrophysics
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Fri, 11 Mar 1960 13:00:07 GMT
Orbital launch #
#58 ever
Mission
Pioneer 5 was a spin-stabilized space probe in the NASA Pioneer program used to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus.