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Pioneer 11, launch date April 5 1973, insisted of April 6? -201.250.0.176, 19:06, 3 April 2006

it was launched at 2 o'clock in the morning; it could have been reported as the 5th —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 19:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Current spaceflight?[edit]

The probe was lost 13 years ago. Surely the infobox about it being a current spaceflight whose details may change should be removed? Thoughts? --Dbutler1986 (talk) 11:15, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, this statement should be updated:

, "Pioneer 10 continues to return scientific data and may have enough power to last until 1999."

Surely we know, as is recorded for Pioner 10, the last time we contacted it succesfully?

IceDragon64 (talk) 20:06, 23 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Launch and Trajectory[edit]

The section is entitled launch and trajectory, but says little about its trajectory. From a picture of Pioneer 11's path, it looks like it was launched directly on a Hohmann transfer orbit to Jupiter, but I haven't been able to confirm this besides from the map. Anyone know for sure if it was a Hohmann transfer orbit? Cheerioswithmilk (talk) 19:41, 7 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistent Information[edit]

The times and distances of the various encounters given in the text body differ from those in the tables. Especially bad is the "near-miss": the text gives the body as probably Epimetheus, but then gives the time and distance as Janus. The table is completely different from this information. This really should be corrected. CFLeon (talk) 18:31, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Skypath of Pioneer 11[edit]

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Please generate a starmap of the skypath of Pioneer 11 similiar to that for Voyager 1, which can be seen on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voyager_1_skypath_1977-2030.png !

Should the whole article be rewritten into past tense?[edit]

As the contact to the spacecraft was lost two decades ago, maybe we should do the same thing as for other wikipedia articles about satellites whose mission has permanently ended, that is, change the tense of the article into past tense.El Roih (talk)