1983, The first man-made object to leave the central Solar System

1983, The first man-made object to leave the central Solar System

On this day June 13, 1983, Pioneer 10, becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Pioneer 10 is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing 258 kilograms, that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. This space exploration project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in California.

The Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2, 1972, by an Atlas-Centaur expendable vehicle from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Between July 15, 1972, and February 15, 1973, it became the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt.

Pioneer 10 crossed the orbit of Saturn in 1976 and the orbit of Uranus in 1979. In 23 January 2003, Pioneer 10 were lost radio communications, because of the loss of electric power for its radio transmitter, with the probe at a distance of 12 billion kilometers (80 AU) from Earth.

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Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10

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