Planetary Science
MARS PATHFINDER
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Mars Pathfinder was an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, 10.6 kg (23 lb) wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, the first rover to operate outside the Earth–Moon system. The mission terminated in 1998.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 4, 1996 at 06:58 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Delta II 7925 →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Mars Pathfinder
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Mars
- Reference body
- Mars
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1996-068A
- NORAD catalog №
- 24667
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 4, 1997
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 4, 1997
- Time in service
- 212 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Mars.
- Final status
- Decayed