Pioneer 6 Program
NASA’s Pioneer 6 Program was the first of a series of spacecraft launched at roughly six-month intervals to study interplanetary phenomena from heliocentric orbits near Earth’s. Launched on 16 December 1965, it returned measurements of the solar atmosphere, magnetic fields, plasma, and high-energy particles and helped establish space-based solar-weather monitoring before NASA’s last contact on 8 December 2000.
Identity
- Aliases
- Pioneer 6Pioneer VIPioneer APioneer 6 mission
- Domains
- spaceflight
- Name
- Pioneer 6 Program
- Status
- completed
- Types
- explorationscienceresearchoperations
Details
- Description
- NASA’s Pioneer 6 Program was the first of a series of spacecraft launched at roughly six-month intervals to study interplanetary phenomena from heliocentric orbits near Earth’s. Launched on 16 December 1965, it returned measurements of the solar atmosphere, magnetic fields, plasma, and high-energy particles and helped establish space-based solar-weather monitoring before NASA’s last contact on 8 December 2000.
- End Date
- 2000-12-08
- Leads
- Parent Program
- Participants
- -
- Start Date
- 1965-12-16
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 14:45:55 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 14:45:55 UTC