1971 · United States Air Force
Mariner 8
failureAtlas SLV-3C Centaur | Mariner 8
Mars orbiter designed to map 70% of the Martian surface and study temporal changes in the Martian atmosphere and surface.
Overview
- Date / time
- May 9, 1971 at 01:11 AM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A
- Mission
- Mariner 8
- Mission type
- Robotic Exploration
- Orbit achieved
- Mars Orbit