flown missionSuccess
Atlas Agena D | Mariner 3
United States Air ForceSpace Launch Complex 13 — Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Mariner 3
- Type
- Robotic Exploration
- Target orbit
- Mars flyby (Mars flyby)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena D
- Family
- Atlas
- Variant
- Agena D
- Provider
- United States Air Force
- Type
- Government
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 13
- Location
- Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/New_York
- Coordinates
- 28.4859, -80.5466