trajectory data
Although both twin spacecrafts' data showed the same "negative acceleration towards Sun" anomaly, for our calculation purposes only the Pioneer's 10 data was used. A switch failure in the Pioneer 11 radio system on 1. October 1990 disabled the generation of coherent Doppler signals. After that date, when the spacecraft was approximately 30 AU away from Sun, no useful data have been generated for the scientific investigation.
The Planet's Orbits from Alcyone software was used to import Pioneer's 10 trajectory data into Maya.
| was launched on | 02. 03. 1972 |
| first data available | 03. 03. 1972 |
| last data available | 30. 12. 2000 |
| data from 02. 03. 2000 | |
| eliptical heliocentric position x (AU) | 16,941232 |
| eliptical heliocentric position y (AU) | -72,629043 |
| eliptical heliocentric position z (AU) | 3,957741 |
| eliptical heliocentric longitude | 76° 52" 12' |
| eliptical heliocentric latitude | 03° 02" 16' |
| heliocentric distance (AU) | 74,683645 |
| distance from Earth (AU) | 74,601270 |
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