Key facts
- Mission type
- Mars flyby/lander
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1973-052A , 1973-052E
- Satcat number span no
- 6768 , 7223
- Mission duration
- 218 days, 15 hours and 25 minutes
- Spacecraft
- 3MP No.50P
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 3,260 kg (7,190 lb)
- Landing mass
- 635 kg (1,400 lb)
- Launch date
- 5 August 1973, 17:45:48 ( 1973-08-05UTC17:45:48Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K / D
- Launch site
- Baikonur 81/23
- Contractor
- Khrunichev
- Last contact
- Lander: , 12 March 1974, 09:11:05 ( 1974-03-12UTC09:11:06Z ) UTC
- Reference system
- Heliocentric
- Perihelion altitude
- 1.01 AU
- Aphelion altitude
- 1.67 AU
- Inclination
- 2.2°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space probe
- Image
- Mars 6.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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Encyclopedic overview
Mars 6 (Russian: Марс-6), also known as 3MP No.50P was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MP bus spacecraft launched as part of the Mars program, it consisted of a lander, and a coast stage with instruments to study Mars as it flew past.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mars 6” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.