1964 · United States Air Force
Mariner 3
successAtlas Agena D | Mariner 3
Mariner 3 was a 260 kg solar-cell and battery-powered spacecraft designed to make scientific measurements in the vicinity of Mars and to obtain photographs of the planet's surface and transmit these to Earth.
Overview
- Date / time
- November 5, 1964 at 07:22 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 13
- Mission
- Mariner 3
- Mission type
- Robotic Exploration
- Orbit achieved
- Mars flyby