17 August 1958, 12:18 (1958-08-17UTC12:18Z) GMT[1][2]
Rocket
Thor DM-18 Able-I (Thor # 127)[1][2]
Launch site
Cape Canaveral, LC-17A[2]
Instruments
Television camera, magnetometer, micrometeoroid impact detector[5]
Project Able-1 Probes (USAF)
Pioneer 1 →
Instruments
TV camera :
Photograph the Moon
Magnetometer :
Interplanetary magnetic field
Micrometeoroid detectors :
Micrometeoroids
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. It was 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,[6] 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.
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^1958 NASA/USAF Space Probes (ABLE-1) Final Report: Volume 1. Summary (PDF) (Report). Space Technology Laboratories. 1959-02-18. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
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^Siddiqi, Asif A. (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016(PDF). The NASA history series (second ed.). Washington, DC: NASA History Program Office. p. 1. ISBN 9781626830424. LCCN 2017059404. SP2018-4041.
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