Status
Failure
Rocket
Mission Details
Mariner 8
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.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 998.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit
Location
SLC-36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1971
45th orbital launch attempt
Atlas-Centaur
23rd mission
2nd mission of 1971
5th failed mission