Launch Failure
Liftoff Time (GMT)
01:11:02
Sunday May 9, 1971
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Damaged circuit board in Centaur resulted in control failure and engine shutdown at T+365 seconds.
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.
Heliocentric Orbit
1 Payload
998 kilograms
23rd
Mission
2nd
Mission of 1971
45th
Orbital launch attempt