Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I), a NASA Mars orbiter launched on an Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral; became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet and mapped the surface after a global dust storm.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Mars
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 30 May 1971, 22:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1971-051
- Launches in 1971
- 55th of 133
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