Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Pioneer 3 was a spin stabilized spacecraft launched at 05:45:12 UTC on 6 December 1958 by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration using a Juno II rocket. This spacecraft was intended as a lunar probe but failed to go past the Moon and into a heliocentric orbit as planned but did reach an altitude of 102360 km before falling back to the Earth.
