Mission · NASA
Pioneer 11
Launch6 Apr 1973
Saturnfirst flyby, 1979
Mass258.5 kg
Last contact30 Sep 1995
The first spacecraft to study Saturn up close and the first to image Jupiter's polar regions.
It passed within 42,500 km of Jupiter's cloud tops, and will pass near the star Lambda Aquilae in almost four million years.
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