DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Lunar orbiter
State: Spacecraft failure
Place: Moon
Operator: Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
Instruments: Television camera, magnetometer, micrometeoroid impact detectorProject Able-1 Probes (USAF)Pioneer 1 →
Date
Start:
Duration: 73.6 secondsFailed to orbit
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Thor DM-18 Able-I(Thor # 127)
Kind: Air Force Ballistic Missile Division
Manufacturer: Space Technology Laboratories
Mass: 83.8 pounds (38.0 kg)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, LC-17A
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
"You’re going very fast when you’re on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half." - Robert Crippen
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Pioneer 0 (also known as Able 1) was a failed United States space probe that was designed to go into orbit around the Moon, carrying a television camera, a micrometeorite detector and a magnetometer, as part of the first International Geophysical Year (IGY) science payload. It was designed and operated by the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division as the first spacecraft in the Pioneer program and was the first attempted launch beyond Earth orbit by any country, but the rocket failed shortly after launch. The probe was intended to be called Pioneer (or Pioneer 1), but the launch failure precluded that name.
