- Home
- Spacecraft
- Mariner 3
Mariner 3
Robotic deep-space probe to Mars. Mariner 3 was launched on November 5, 1964 aboard a Atlas Agena D from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: left Earth orbit for deep space (Nov 6, 1964).
COSPAR 1964-073ANORAD 923United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Mariner 3
- Payload designation
- Mariner C-2
- International designator
- 1964-073A
- NORAD catalog number
- 923
- GCAT identifier
- S00923
- UN registration
- A/AC.105/INF.087
Mission
- Mission type
- Deep space
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- Mariner
- Owner
- JPL
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- Jet Propulsion Lab
- Platform (bus)
- Mariner
Launch
- Date
- November 5, 1964 · 19:22 UTC
- Launch record
- 1964-073Success
- Rocket
- Atlas Agena D
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC13
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- EEO
- Perigee
- 180 km
- Inclination
- 31.07°
- Status
- Left Earth orbit for deep space
- Status date
- November 6, 1964
- Last known active
- Nov 6, 1964
- End of operations
- Nov 6, 1964
Size
- Mass
- 261 kg
- Dry mass
- 261 kg
- Total mass with attached objects
- 397 kg
- Length
- 2.9 m
- Diameter
- 1.30 m
- Span
- 6.9 m
Deep space
- Deep-space catalog entry
- D00055
- Final central body
- Earth
- Phase start
- November 6, 1964
- Phase outcome
- Escaped to another body · November 13, 1964
- Destination
- HCO
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q719652 (CC0).