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First rover launched to Mars. Lost when the Mars 2 lander crashed into the surface of Mars. 16 Mars 3: Mars 3 (4M No.172) 28 May 1971 Soviet Union: Orbiter Successful On December 2 it became in short sequence the third spacecraft to orbit another planet. [5] Operated for 20 orbits [8] [9] Proton-K/D: Mars 3 lander (SA 4M No.172) Lander Partial ...
The orbiter reached Mars orbit on September 24, 2014. Through this mission, ISRO became the first space agency to succeed in its first attempt at a Mars orbiter. The mission is the first successful Asian interplanetary mission. [6] Ten days after ISRO's launch, NASA launched their seventh Mars orbiter MAVEN to study the Martian atmosphere.
Mars Climate Orbiter: 11 December 1998 Attempted Mars orbiter (orbit insertion failed; entered atmosphere and was destroyed) [341] [342] Mars Polar Lander/Deep Space 2 (DS2) 3 January 1999 Attempted Mars lander/penetrators (contact lost) [343] [344] [345] Stardust: 7 February 1999 First comet coma sample return (returned 15 January 2006) [346 ...
Mars Success: First deep space photographs of another planet and first flyby of Mars December 15 Italy: San Marco 1: Scout X-4: Earth Success: First Italian satellite (on American rocket) 1965 February 2 US: Ranger 8: Atlas-Agena: Moon Success: Lunar impactor. Returned pictures until impact. February 20 US: Ranger 9: Atlas-Agena: Moon Success ...
15 December 1970 landed: 121 days (3 mo, 29 d) Venera 7 made the first successful landing on another planet, and returned signals from the surface of Venus for 23 minutes. [5] Mars 2 Orbiter and Lander: Mars 19 May 1971 27 November 1971 impact: 193 days (6 mo, 9 d) The Mars 2 lander crashed into Mars on 27 November 1971, in a failed soft ...
The U.S. space agency said Ingenuity made an "emergency landing" during what became its penultimate flight on Jan. 6, apparently setting itself down more abruptly than planned due to navigational ...
The first to contact the surface were two Soviet probes: Mars 2 lander on November 27 and Mars 3 lander on December 2, 1971—Mars 2 failed during descent and Mars 3 failed about twenty seconds after the first Martian soft landing. [24] Mars 6 failed during descent but did return some corrupted atmospheric data in 1974. [25]
Mars sample return mission [37] Ramses: 2028 ESA 2024 Asteroid orbiter [38] [39] Tera-hertz Explorer: 2020s [citation needed] Mars orbiter and lander [40] [41] Venera-D: 2031 Russian Space Research Institute: 2023 Venus orbiter and lander [42] Uranus Orbiter and Probe: NET 2031 NASA: 2023 Uranus orbiter and probe [43] [44] Interstellar Probe ...