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Here we have a problem I have to deal with all too often: the difficulty of finding useful information.
Apart from a few pictures and sketchy, pixelated drawings, I can not find any good info about any Pioneer satellite. It must have been a top secret program, at the time. Or maybe nobody had the idea of making pictures. If you are satisfied with "Hmm... yeah... maybe it did look like that....Perhaps..." , than I would be glad to help you out. After all, I am working on redrawing my old Pioneer 4 model. It badly needs an update. Any kind of info we can find will help us both. I'll see what I can do. ______ Erik |
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That's a nice model! And the preview picture is great, too!
I think you already know them, but here are nice documents on the spacecraft with some pictures and diagrams: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1963042108.pdf http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1965069888.pdf (found via http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp) Thorsten |
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I found a large, high res pictures of Pioneer 3. The balance weight release system is in plain view !!
Solar System Exploration: Multimedia: Gallery: Historical Images On page 4 you can see the picture we already know. A small part of the instruments can be seen here. One of the protrusions looks like the Geiger instruments on the inside. Solar System Exploration: Multimedia: Gallery: Historical Images There are metal strips connected, on top of the vertical bars. I have no idea what their function is. Maybe somebody out there knows? |
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Wow, I did not come across these documents, surprisingly. They would've been of great help when I was designing it! I might get around to doing the despin mechanism and the photosensor sometime.
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The NTRS is always a good starting point if you search for information about US space vehicles. Lots of great documents there!
Thorsten |
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