Key facts
- Mission type
- Mars orbiter
- Operator
- NASA / JPL
- Mission duration
- Failed to orbit
- Spacecraft
- Mariner-H
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Launch mass
- 997.9 kilograms (2,200 lb)
- Dry mass
- 558.8 kilograms (1,232 lb)
- Power
- 500 watts
- Launch date
- May 9, 1971, 01:11:02 ( 1971-05-09UTC01:11:02Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur-D
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral LC-36A
- Reference system
- Areocentric
- Epoch
- Planned
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space probe
- Part of
- Mariner program
- Operator
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Followed by
- Mariner 9
- Follows
- Mariner 7
- Mass
- 558.8
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Image
- Mariner09.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- native label
- Mariner 8
- nominal power output
- 500
- type of orbit
- areocentric orbit
- Commons category
- Mariner 8
- space launch vehicle
- Atlas-Centaur
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1971-05-09
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
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Encyclopedic overview
Launch of Mariner 8
Mariner-H (Mariner Mars '71), also commonly known as Mariner 8, was (along with Mariner 9) part of the Mariner Mars '71 project. It was intended to go into Mars orbit and return images and data, but a launch vehicle failure prevented Mariner 8 from achieving Earth orbit and the spacecraft reentered into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mariner 8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.