Pioneer 10 and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft. The plaque is attached to the antenna support struts to provide some shielding from interstellar dust. In the film "", a Klingon ship destroys "Pioneer 10" as target practice. In the internet multimedia fiction project "17776", a sentient "Pioneer 10" is one of the main characters. Pioneer 10 Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an American space probe, launched in 1972 and weighing , that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Thereafter, "Pioneer 10" became the first of five
Jupiter trojan will then return to the vicinity of Earth for a gravity assist to take it to Jupiter's Trojan cloud where it will visit 617 Patroclus. The Japanese space agency has proposed the OKEANOS solar sail for the late 2020s to either analyse a Trojan asteroid "in situ" or to perform a sample-return mission. Jupiter trojan The Jupiter trojans, commonly called Trojan asteroids or simply Trojans, are a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of Jupiter's two stable Lagrange points: ', lying 60° ahead of the