DEARMOON PROJECT
Target: Moon
State: Planned
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Mission
Kind: Mars orbiter
State: Partial failure
Place: Mars
Operator: Lavochkin
Date
Start:
Duration: 7 months 3 days (launch to last contact)
Mission Ending
Last Contact: 28 February 1974 (1974-03-01)
Rocket
Rocket: Proton-K/D
Kind: Lavochkin
Manufacturer: Lavochkin
Mass: 3440 kg
Launch Site: Baikonur 81/24
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Areocentric
1º Orbit: Mars
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Mars 5 (Russian: Марс-5), also known as 3MS No.53S was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MS spacecraft launched as part of the Mars programme, it successfully entered orbit around Mars in 1974. However, it failed a few weeks later.
