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Mars 2a
Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 4 Nov 1962, 03:35 pm UTC
Rocket: Molniya 8K78 (R-7)
Provider: Soviet Space Program
Mission
Type: Robotic Exploration
Orbit: Heliocentric N/A
Pad: 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission Description
Mars lander mission which failed when the booster/spacecraft complex broke up during the burn to Mars trajectory.