Mariner 10

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

05:45:00

Saturday November 3, 1973

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Mariner 10

Wiki

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.)

Heliocentric Orbit

1 Payload

503 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-SLV3D Centaur-D1A

Active 1973 to 1975


Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-36B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

50 days 6 hours

Stats

Atlas-Centaur


32nd

Mission

3rd

Mission of 1973

1973


92nd

Orbital launch attempt