Planetary Science
MARINER 10 (MVM-73)
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Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to visit Mercury and the first to perform a flyby of multiple planets.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 3, 1973 at 05:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Mariner 10
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 498.51 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1973-085A
- NORAD catalog №
- 6919
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- active