Pioneer 11, launched in 1973, was the second spacecraft ever to travel through the Asteroid belt and past Jupiter, and the first to get to Saturn.
Mission | Date/Time | Event |
pioneer11 | 1973.04.06.02.11.00 | Launch |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.03.08.21.00 | Callisto flyby (786,500km) |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.03.22.09.00 | Ganymede flyby (692,300km) |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.03.11.00 | Io flyby (314,000km) |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.04.15.00 | Europa flyby (586,700km) |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.05.00.21 | Jupiter shadow entry |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.05.01.01 | Jupiter occultation entry |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.05.21.19 | Jupiter Flyby (altitude 42,828km) |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.05.33.52 | Jupiter shadow exit |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.05.43.03 | Jupiter occultation exit |
pioneer11 | 1974.12.04.22.29.00 | Amalthea flyby (127,500km) |
pioneer11 | 1977.11.01.12.00.00 | Saturn flyby strategy defined |
pioneer11 | 1978.07.13.12.00.00 | Trim maneuvre to set up Saturn flyby |
pioneer11 | 1979.08.28.13.26.19 | Precession adjustment maneuvre |
pioneer11 | 1979.08.28.17.46.32 | Precession adjustment maneuvre |
pioneer11 | 1979.08.29.06.06.10 | Iapetus closest approach (1,032,535km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.08.29.11.53.33 | Phoebe closest approach (13,713,574km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.08.31.12.32.33 | Hyperion closest approach (666,153km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.14.26.56 | Descending ring plane crossing |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.14.50.51 | Radiation instruments readings plunge to nearly zero |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.14.50.55 | Epimetheus closest approach (6,676km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.14.50.59 | Radiation instruments back to previous levels. Exit wake of as then undiscovered moon. |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.15.06.32 | Atlas closest approach (45,960km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.15.59.30 | Dione closest approach (291,556km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.16.26.28 | Mimas closest approach (104,263km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.16.29.34 | Saturn Flyby (altitude: 20,591km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.16.35.00 | Saturn occultation entry |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.16.35.57 | Saturn shadow entry |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.16.51.11 | Janus closest approach (228,988km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.17.53.32 | Saturn occultation exit |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.17.54.47 | Saturn shadow exit |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.18.21.59 | Ascending ring plane crossing |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.18.25.34 | Tethys closest approach (329,197km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.18.30.14 | Enceladus closest approach (222,027km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.20.04.13 | Calypso closest approach (109,916km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.01.22.15.27 | Rhea closest approach (345,303km) |
pioneer11 | 1979.09.02.18.00.33 | Titan closest approach (362,962km) |
pioneer11 | 1995.09.30.12.00.00 | End of science mission |
pioneer11 | 1995.11.30.12.00.00 | Last signal received |
pioneer11 | 2009.09.01.16.34.00 | 30th anniversary of Saturn flyby |
pioneer11 | 2013.04.06.02.11.00 | 40 years of flight |
pioneer11 | 2099.01.01.00.00.00 | in 4 million years: Lambda Aquilla flyby |