Mars 2MV-4
Spacecraft · Russia
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Mars 2MV-4. Other spacecraft in the 2MV series were similar.
Credit: NASA
Russian Mars flyby probe. Mars probe intended to photograph Mars on a flyby trajectory.
It carried various scientific and communications equipment including a magnetometer probe, a high-gain antenna, an omnidirectional antenna, a semi-directional antenna, and photographic equipment.
More at: Mars 2MV-4.
Related
- Family
- Mars flyby
- Country
- Russia
- Engines
- KDU-414
- Launch Vehicles
- R-7, Mars tactical rocket, Molniya 8K78
- Projects
- Mars
- Launch Sites
- Baikonur, Baikonur LC1
- Agency
- Korolev bureau
Photo Gallery
Mars
Credit: Manufacturer Image
Chronology
2 events
1962 October 24
17:55 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78. FAILURE: 16 seconds after ignition of Stage 4, Block L's S1.5400A1 engine exploded. A lubricant leak resulted in the jamming of a shaft in the turbopump gearbox and break up of the turbine.. Failed Stage: U.- Sputnik 22 - .
Payload: 2MV-4 s/n 3. Mass: 6,500 kg (14,300 lb). Nation: Russia.
Agency: RVSN.
Program: Mars.
Class: Mars.
Type: Mars probe. Spacecraft Bus: 2MV.
Spacecraft: Mars 2MV-4.
Decay Date: 1962-10-29 . USAF Sat Cat: 443 . COSPAR: 1962-B-Iota-1. Apogee: 260 km (160 mi). Perigee: 202 km (125 mi). Inclination: 65.10 deg. Period: 89.10 min.
Mars probe intended to photograph Mars on a flyby trajectory. The spacecraft broke into many pieces, some of which apparently remained in Earth orbit for a few days. This occurred during the Cuban missile crisis and was picked up by U.S. military radar installations, who originally feared it might by the start of a Soviet nuclear attack.
1962 November 1
16:14 GMT - . Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Complex: Baikonur LC1. LV Family: R-7. Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78.- Mars 1 - .
Payload: 2MV-4 s/n 4 / Sputnik 23. Mass: 894 kg (1,970 lb). Nation: Russia.
Agency: RVSN.
Program: Mars.
Class: Mars.
Type: Mars probe. Spacecraft Bus: 2MV.
Spacecraft: Mars 2MV-4.
USAF Sat Cat: 450 . COSPAR: 1962-B-Nu-3.
Mars probe intended to photograph Mars on a flyby trajectory. Launched from Sputnik 23 in a 157 x 238 km, 65 degree parking orbit. Sixty-one radio transmissions were held in which a large amount of data was collected. On March 21, 1963, when the spacecraft was at a distance of 106 million km communications ceased, possibly due to a malfunction in the spacecraft orientation system. Mars 1 closest approach to Mars occurred on June 19, 1963 at a distance of approximately 193,000 km, after which the spacecraft entered a heliocentric orbit. Announced mission: Prolonged exploration of outer space during flight to the planet Mars; establishment of inter-planetary radio communications; photgraphing of the planet Mars and subsquent radio-transmission to Earth of the photographs of the surface of Mars thus obtained.