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MARS 5
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Mars 5, also known as 3MS No.53S was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MS spacecraft launched as part of the Mars programme, it successfully entered orbit around Mars in 1974. However, it failed a few weeks later.
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Launch
- Launch date
- July 25, 1973 at 06:55 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Mars-5
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Mars
- Reference body
- Mars
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 3,409.32 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-049A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6754
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- active