Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

06:01:00

Wednesday June 14, 1967

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Mariner 5

Wiki

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.

Heliocentric Orbit

1 Payload

245 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D

Active 1964 to 1967


Payload to Orbit

LEO: 1,825 kg

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-12

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

32 days 4 hours

Stats

Atlas-Agena


94th

Mission

7th

Mission of 1967

1967


65th

Orbital launch attempt