Mariner 7 — launch
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Mariner 7 was a NASA robotic spacecraft launched on March 27, 1969 as a companion to Mariner 6. It flew past Mars on August 5, returning images and measurements of the surface and atmosphere. The two spacecraft provided complementary observations of the planet, including terrain that earlier missions had not examined at comparable resolution.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_7. Related NASA reference: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/mariner-7/.
- Category
- Launches and Flight Tests
- Type
- Orbital launch
- Subjects
- Space transportation
- Mission
- Mariner 7
- Organization
- NASA Lewis Research Center
- Vehicle
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Location
- Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida
- Country
- US
- Human involvement
- Uncrewed
- Outcome
- Successful
Sources and attribution
- Jonathan McDowell — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (opens in a new tab) — Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0. Adapted into anniversary records. (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikipedia — Mariner 7 (opens in a new tab) — Factual synthesis based on the cited Wikipedia and NASA pages; original editorial wording. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Timeline of Space Exploration Missions 1957 to 2031 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA — Mariner 7 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA NSSDCA — Mariner 7 (opens in a new tab)