Mariner 1 (P-37 / Mariner R-1), NASA's first Venus flyby probe intended for a heliocentric trajectory. Atlas LV-3 Agena-B from Cape Canaveral LC-12 was destroyed by range safety about 293 seconds after liftoff after a guidance-system failure.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Venus flyby
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 16th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 22 July 1962, 09:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- Launches in 1962
- 38th of 81