{"id":13449,"date":"2015-01-23T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/last-contact-with-pioneer-10-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-23T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T23:16:15","slug":"last-contact-with-pioneer-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/last-contact-with-pioneer-10-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Contact with Pioneer 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-534\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<div class=\"bottomcontainerBox c7\">\n<div class=\"c6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fpinterest.com%2Fpin%2Fcreate%2Fbutton%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252F01%252F23%252Flast-contact-with-pioneer-10%252F%26amp%3Bmedia%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2011%252F01%252Fpioneer10.jpeg\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\" rel=\"lightbox[534]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/66c32__pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-545\" title=\"Pioneer 10\" alt=\"Pioneer 10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/66c32__pioneer10.jpeg\" width=\"267\" height=\"188\" \/>January 23, 2003<\/p>\n<p>The last successful contact was made with the spacecraft <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPioneer_10\" target=\"_blank\">Pioneer 10<\/a>, one of the most distant man-made objects in the universe. <em>Pioneer 10<\/em> is heading in the direction of the star\u00a0<a title=\"Aldebaran\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAldebaran\" target=\"_blank\">Aldebaran<\/a> in the constellation\u00a0<a title=\"Taurus (constellation)\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTaurus_%28constellation%29\" target=\"_blank\">Taurus<\/a> at roughly 2.6\u00a0<a title=\"Astronomical unit\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FAstronomical_unit\" target=\"_blank\">AU<\/a> per year. If Aldebaran had zero\u00a0<a title=\"Relative velocity\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRelative_velocity\" target=\"_blank\">relative velocity<\/a>, it would take\u00a0<em>Pioneer 10<\/em> about 2 million years to reach it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottomcontainerBox c7\">\n<div class=\"c6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fpinterest.com%2Fpin%2Fcreate%2Fbutton%2F%3Furl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252F01%252F23%252Flast-contact-with-pioneer-10%252F%26amp%3Bmedia%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fthisdayintechhistory.com%252Fwp-content%252Fuploads%252F2011%252F01%252Fpioneer10.jpeg\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\" rel=\"lightbox[534]\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/66c32__pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/66c32__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/23\/last-contact-with-pioneer-10\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 23, 2003 The last successful contact was made with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects in the universe. Pioneer 10 is heading in the direction of the star\u00a0Aldebaran in the constellation\u00a0Taurus at roughly 2.6\u00a0AU per year. If Aldebaran had zero\u00a0relative velocity, it would take\u00a0Pioneer 10 about 2 million years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3094,1907,3095],"class_list":["post-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-contact","tag-last","tag-pioneer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}