NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Mariner 10

Launch Time
Sat Nov 03, 1973 05:45 UTC

Rocket

Atlas-SLV3D Centaur-D1A
Image Credit: USAF or NASA
General Dynamics
Status: Retired
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0

Mission Details

Mariner 10

Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. It was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets.

Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program. (Mariner 11 and 12 were allocated to the Voyager program and redesignated Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.)

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 503.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit

Location

SLC-36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

1973

92nd orbital launch attempt

Atlas-Centaur

32nd mission
3rd mission of 1973
24th successful mission
9th consecutive successful mission