Mars 1 (2MV-4 / Sputnik 23), the first Soviet probe successfully sent toward Mars on a flyby trajectory to image the planet and measure fields and particles. Molniya 8K78 from Baikonur injected it onto a heliocentric path; contact was lost on 21 March 1963 en route, before a distant June 1963 flyby.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Mars flyby
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 40 Molniya 8K78 flights
- Date and time
- 1 November 1962, 16:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1962-061
- Launches in 1962
- 69th of 81
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