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Mariner 5
Sign in to saveuncrewed probe sent by NASA as part of Mariner program in 1967
Key facts
- Mission type
- Venus flyby
- Operator
- NASA / JPL
- Cospar id
- 1967-060A
- Mission duration
- 1 year, 4 months and 22 days
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Launch mass
- 244.9 kilograms (540 lb)
- Power
- 170 W
- Launch date
- June 14, 1967, 06:01:00 ( 1967-06-14UTC06:01Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-12
- Last contact
- December 4, 1967, Loss of contact , October 14, 1968, Briefly regained
- Closest approach
- October 19, 1967
- Distance
- 3,990 kilometers (2,480 miles)
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Mariner program
- Operator
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Followed by
- Mariner 6
- Follows
- Mariner 4
- Mass
- 244.9
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Image
- Mariner 05.PNG
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- Commons category
- Mariner 5
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1967-06-14
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- Mariner 5
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 12
- native label
- Mariner 5
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Encyclopedic overview
Launch of Mariner 5
Mariner 5 (Mariner V or Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus's atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet. Its goals were to measure interplanetary and Venusian magnetic fields, charged particles, plasma, radio refractivity and UV emissions of the Venusian atmosphere.
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