Beskrivning : This mission was the first to be sent to the outer solar system and the first to investigate the planet Jupiter, after which it followed an escape trajectory from the solar system. This solar system escape direction is unique because the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft (and the now terminated Pioneer 11 spacecraft mission) are heading in the opposite direction towards the nose of the heliosphere in the upstream direction relative to the inflowing interstellar gas.
Kennedy space center and Pioneer 11 near Jupiter.

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PIONEER 11 (OUTER PLANETS PROBE) · NEAR JUPITER