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Pioneer 3

Launch failure

Milestones

6 Dec 1958 Launch Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 (NASA SP-2018-4041)

Operator: NASA
Launch: 6 Dec 1958
Programme: Pioneer
COSPAR: 1958-008A

Further reading

Wikipedia ↗
NSSDCA ↗
Wikidata ↗

Sources

Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 (NASA SP-2018-4041)Table 1, no. 7 (launch, outcome)
WikidataQ628186 (identifiers, Wikipedia links)
Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016 (NASA SP-2018-4041)no. 7, Results: "subsequently plummeted and burned up over Africa 38 hours 6 minutes after launch" (status)

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