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Pioneer 10
Pioneer 10
(originally designated
Pioneer F
) is an American
space probe
, weighing , that completed the first mission to the planet
Jupiter
. Thereafter, Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve
escape velocity
from the
Solar System
. This
space exploration
project was conducted by the
NASA Ames Research Center
in
California
, and the space probe was manufactured by
TRW Inc.
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