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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft have apparently slowed down due to heat pushing back on the spacecraft, according to new findings. The effect, known as "Pioneer Anomaly," takes place when heat emanates from electrical current flowing through instruments and the thermoelectric power supply. "The effect is something like when you're driving a car and the photons from your headlights are pushing you backward," Slava Turyshev, lead...
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The Pioneer Program is a series of American unmanned space missions designed for planetary exploration. The program included a number of missions, but the most well-known missions were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11. Both Pioneer 10 and 11 explored the outer planets and left our solar system. Both probes carry a gold plaque, depicting a man and a woman and information about the origin of the probes and their creators. The Pioneer probe was named by Stephen A. Saliga, who was chief designer of Air...
