Timeline of the Pioneer 10 mission
| Time (UTC/GMT+0) | Event | |
| 1972-03-03 01:49:00 | Launch | |
| 1972-07-15 | Enters Asteroid belt | |
| 1973-12-03 12:26 | Callisto flyby (1,392,300km) | |
| 1973-12-03 13:56 | Ganymede (446,250km) | |
| 1973-12-03 19:26 | Europa flyby (321,000km) | |
| 1973-12-03 22:56 | Io flyby (357,000km) | |
| 1973-12-04 02:26:00 | Jupiter Flyby (altitude 130,000km) | |
| 1973-12-04 02:36 | Equator plane crossing | |
| 1973-12-04 02:41:45 | Io occultation entry | |
| 1973-12-04 02:43:16 | Io occultation exit | |
| 1973-12-04 03:42:25 | Jupiter occultation entry | |
| 1973-12-04 04:15:35 | Jupiter shadow entry | |
| 1973-12-04 04:47:21 | Jupiter occultation exit | |
| 1973-12-04 05:07 | Jupiter shadow exit | |
| 1997-03-31 | End of science mission | |
| 2002-03-03 01:49:00 | 30 years of flight | |
| 2002-04-27 | Last telemetry data received | |
| 2006-03-04 | Last attempt to acquire signal fails | |
| 2011-07-23 09:53:21 | = = = Current Time = = = | |
| 2012-03-03 01:49:00 | 40 years of flight | |
| tbd | in 126,000 years: no longer dominated by gravity of the Sun | |
| tbd | in 2 million years: Aldebean flyby |