Mariner 2 was an American space probe to Venus and the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter. It was the first successful spacecraft of the NASA Mariner program, an exact copy of the earlier Mariner 1 which had failed at launch, and a simplified version of the Ranger program Block I spacecraft design. Mariner 2 launched from Cape Canaveral on August 27, 1962, and passed within about 34,773 kilometers of Venus on December 14, 1962, carrying far less instrumentation than the Soviet Venera probes of the same period, including no television camera.
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Spacecraft Type ManufacturerJet Propulsion Laboratory 1 Status
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Source Mariner 2 - Wikipedia
Source Mariner 2 - Wikipedia
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1. Mariner 2 - Wikipedia
Infobox, Spacecraft type
Ranger Block I
Infobox, Launch date
August 27, 1962, 06:53:14 UTC
Infobox, Manufacturer
JPL
Infobox, Status
Decommissioned
- In Group: Venus Probes, Mariner 2 (Mariner-Venus 1962), an American space probe to Venus, was the first robotic space probe to report successfully from a planetary encounter. The first successful spacecraft in the NASA
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The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Mariner 1.
Operated By: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lead paragraph, operator
The first successful spacecraft in the NASA Mariner program, it was a simplified version of the Block I spacecraft of the Ranger program and an exact copy of Mariner 1.
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