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Payload / Mission

Pioneer 8

Type
Astrophysics
Orbit
Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)

Pioneer A to E (Pioneer 6 to 9 after launch) were a series of five solar-orbiting, spin-stabilized, solar-cell and battery-powered satellites designed to obtain measurements of interplanetary phenomena from widely separated points in space on a continuing basis.