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MARS 6
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Mars 6, also known as 3MP No.50P was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MP bus spacecraft launched as part of the Mars program, it consisted of a lander, and a coast stage with instruments to study Mars as it flew past.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 5, 1973 at 05:45 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Mars-6
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-052A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6768
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- active