Status
Success
Rocket
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