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Mars-1b
Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 14 Oct 1960, 01:51 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 third stage failed to ignite.