Mariner 10, NASA’s Venus–Mercury planetary probe and the first spacecraft to visit Mercury. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral SLC-36B launched on 3 November 1973 for heliocentric flybys of Venus (gravity assist) and three Mercury encounters.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Mercury flyby
- Payload to orbit
- 502 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 3 November 1973, 05:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1973-085
- Launches in 1973
- 92nd of 116
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