Mariner 2, NASA's first successful interplanetary spacecraft, launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Cape Canaveral on 27 August 1962 toward Venus. It flew past Venus on 14 December 1962 at about 34,800 km, returning the first in-situ planetary data.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Venus flyby
- Payload to orbit
- 203 kg
- Flight
- 18th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 27 August 1962, 06:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1962-041
- Launches in 1962
- 48th of 81
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