Mariner 3 Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

5 Nov 1964, 7:22pm

Pad

Space Launch Complex 13

Launch Service Provider

Mission

Mariner 3

Mission Type

Robotic Exploration

Destination

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.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:54pm UTC

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