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MSL
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Curiosity is a Mars rover that is exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Launched in 2011 and landed the following year, the car-sized rover continues to operate more than a decade after its original two-year mission.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 26, 2011 at 03:02 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas V 541 →
- Operator
- United Launch Alliance
- Mission
- MSL (Curiosity)
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Mars
- Reference body
- Mars
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 3,839 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2011-070A
- NORAD catalog №
- 37936
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 6, 2012
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 6, 2012
- Time in service
- 254 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Mars.
- Final status
- Decayed