Payload
SPUTNIK 24
DecayedPayloadLEO
Mars 2MV-3 No.1 also known as Sputnik 24 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was launched in 1962 as part of the Mars program, and was intended to land on the surface of Mars. Due to a problem with the rocket which launched it, it did not depart low Earth orbit, and it decayed several days later. It was the only Mars 2MV-3 spacecraft to be launched.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 4, 1962 at 03:35 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Mars 2a
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 171 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 64.85°
- Orbital period
- 87.9 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-062A
- NORAD catalog №
- 451
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- November 5, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- November 5, 1962
- Time in service
- 1 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed