Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a 259 kilogram (569 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 6 1973 to study the asteroid belt the environment around Jupiter and Saturn solar wind cosmic rays and eventually the far reaches of the solar system and heliosphere. It was the first probe to encounter Saturn and the second to fly through the asteroid belt and by Jupiter. Due to power constraints and the vast distance to the probe communication was lost on November 30 1995.
