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Mars-1a
Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 10 Oct 1960, 02:27 pm UTC
Rocket: Molniya 8K78 (R-7)
Provider: Soviet Space Program
Mission
Type: Planetary Science
Orbit: Mars flyby
Pad: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
A Russian mars flyby probe intended to photograph Mars. The second stage failed.