Viking 2 orbiter and lander, NASA’s second Mars mission of the pair, carrying imaging and life-detection instruments. Titan IIIE/Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-41 lofted the stack toward Mars; the lander touched down in Utopia Planitia on 3 September 1976.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 Titan IIIE flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1975, 18:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIE
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1975-083
- Launches in 1975
- 87th of 132
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