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...planet, a gold-plated fiberglass cone weighing 13.4 Ibs., did not compare in weight with the 796-lb. Lunik that the Russians put into solar orbit early in January, but its instruments apparently worked much better. The signal from its tiny transmitter was so strong that the 250-ft. radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, England could have followed it 4,000,000 miles into space if its batteries had lasted. The Russians reported that they lost their Lunik's signal (which no one else had followed) at 370,000 miles...
...planned. The launching vehicle was a Chrysler-built Army Jupiter beefed up with extra fuel for extra range. Mounted on its massive shoulders were 15 small, solid-fuel rockets arranged to fire in three stages (see diagram). Perched on the nose of the final rocket was the gilded cone itself, Pioneer...
Slowdown. As the gilded cone climbed through the earth's weakening gravitational field, it slowed down. Nineteen hours after launch, it was 190,000 miles from the earth's surface and moving at 4,700 m.p.h. Forty-one hours after launch, it passed the moon's orbit and plunged into translunar space, still moving at 4,525 m.p.h...
...powerful government radio telescope lost contact with the 13-pound cone at 10:24 a.m. EST. The General Electric Co. tracking station at Schenectady, N.Y., reported flickering signals until shortly after...
...pass came at 5:24 p.m. EST. Scientists calculated the 13-pound cone came within 37,000 mles of the moon. At the time, government scientists said, the gold-plated vehicle was 236,000 miles from earth...