Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Mariner 5
Mariner 5 (Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' 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.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 245.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit
Location
LC-12, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1967
65th orbital launch attempt
Atlas-Agena
94th mission
7th mission of 1967
75th successful mission
4th consecutive successful mission