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Mariner 3
Atlas Agena D · Robotic Exploration
1964Space Launch Complex 13, Cape Canaveral
Mission
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.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Atlas Agena D
- Orbit
- Mars flyby
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 13
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2