It gives our location in the Galaxy and depicts a naked man and woman drawn in relation to the spacecraft. PIONEER 10 SPACECRAFT SENDS LAST SIGNAL. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. The Voyagers were built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which continues to operate both spacecraft.

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REAL astronomy for all ages! Pioneer 11 (also known as Pioneer G) is a 260-kilogram (570 lb) robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 6, 1973 to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar wind and cosmic rays.

Pioneer 11 is about 12.4 billion kilometers (7.8 billion miles) away from the sun. Pioneer 11 is Heading for the Eagle Pioneer 11, built to be a backup if Pioneer 10 failed, was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 5, 1973, on an Atlas-Centaur rocket, on a trajectory similar to Pioneer 10. SkyMarvels uses the incredible, free astronomy-simulation software CELESTIA to whisk you through space and time effortlessly! After more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10 spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth. Pioneer 10 and 11 Current Locations, Learn the latest sky news as you streak through the universe in stunning 3-D! JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Pioneer 11 was a big shot in the dark for NASA, with the probe visiting not one, but two planets on its cruise outwards from Earth. Pioneer's last, very weak signal was received on Jan. 22, 2003. Pioneer 10 is heading towards the star Aldebaran in the Taurus constellation and will take more than two million years to reach it. NASA engineers report Pioneer 10's radioisotope power source has decayed, and it may not have enough power to send additional transmissions to Earth. For Pioneer 11, NASA assessed that its transmitter will fall silent altogether some time in late 1996 and in September 29, 1995 announced they're ending Pioneer 11 operations. Pioneer 10 is heading out of the solar system in a direction very different from the two Voyager probes and Pioneer 11, i.e., towards the nose of the heliosphere in an upstream direction relative to the inflowing interstellar gas. Trek to planets, moons, stars, galaxies! Pioneer 11 is headed toward the constellation of Aquila (The Eagle), Northwest of the constellation of Sagittarius. Before Pioneer probes went completely silent on us, SETI used to use Pioneer 10 as a test target during their Phoenix Project , serving as a good approximation target for an ETI signal . New Horizons is about 3 billion kilometers (2 billion miles) away from the sun, on its way to Pluto.