2001 · United States Air Force
Mars Odyssey
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2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to use spectrometers and a thermal imager to detect evidence of past or present water and ice, as well as study the planet's geology and radiation environment.
Overview
- Date / time
- April 7, 2001 at 03:02 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- Mars Odyssey
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Orbit achieved
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit