Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
06:58:00
Wednesday December 4, 1996
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Mars Pathfinder (MESUR Pathfinder) is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight (10.6 kg) wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, which became the first rover to operate outside the Earth–Moon system.
Heliocentric Orbit
1 Payload
264 kilograms
Manufacturer
ULARocket
Height: 38.1m
Payload to Orbit
GTO: 1,819 kg
Liftoff Thrust
3,511 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 2.9m
Height: 8.49m
Stages
3
Strap-ons
9
54th
Mission
10th
Mission of 1996
72nd
Orbital launch attempt