Planetary Science
MARS 3 DESCENT CRAFT
DecayedPlanetary ScienceMars
A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Of multiple attempted Mars landings by robotic, uncrewed spacecraft, ten have had successful soft landings. There have also been studies for a possible human mission to Mars including a landing, but none has been attempted.
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Launch
- Launch date
- May 28, 1971 at 03:26 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Mars-3
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Mars
- Reference body
- Mars
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1971-049E
- NORAD catalog №
- 5667
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 2, 1971
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 2, 1971
- Time in service
- 188 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Mars.
- Final status
- Decayed