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    A Mars flyby is a movement of spacecraft passing in the vicinity of the planet Mars, but not entering orbit or landing on it. Uncrewed space probes have...
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    Planetary flybys have occurred with Mars or Earth for example: List of Earth flybys Mars flyby An example of a comet flyby is when International Cometary Explorer...
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    would get a flyby of Mars and Venus in under a year in space. Some flyby mission architectures can also be extended to include a style of Mars landing with...
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    Mariner 4 (category Missions to Mars)
    Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct...
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    program Vega program Venera Voyager program Zond program List of Earth flybys Mars flyby Timeline of the Space Race Timeline of Solar System exploration The...
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    wind-propelled sphere Exploration of Mars Mars flyby Satellites of Mars Mars landing Mars rover List of artificial objects on Mars Comparison of embedded computer...
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    TMK (category Soviet Mars missions)
    including a Mars flyby, at which time probes would have been dropped. Expanded project variations, such as the TMK-E, Mavr or KK, including a Venus flyby, electric...
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    Manned Venus Flyby was a 1967–1968 NASA proposal to send three astronauts on a flyby mission to Venus in an Apollo-derived spacecraft in 1973–1974, using...
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    include crewed flybys, crewed landers, or other types of Mars system encounter strategies. Many mission concepts for expeditions to Mars were proposed...
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    Inspiration Mars Foundation was an American nonprofit organization founded by Dennis Tito that in 2013 proposed to launch a crewed mission to flyby Mars in January...
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    Mariner program (category Missions to Mars)
    not get to Mars. Mariner 4, launched on November 28, 1964, was the first successful flyby of the planet Mars and gave the first glimpse of Mars at close...
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    Nozomi (spacecraft) (category Missions to Mars)
    flyby coupled with a 7 minute burn of the bipropellant rocket put Nozomi into an escape trajectory towards Mars. It was scheduled to arrive at Mars on...
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    separated from the flyby bus on 12 March 1974 at an altitude of 48,000 kilometres (30,000 mi) from the surface of Mars. The bus made a flyby with a closest...
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    The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos. They are irregular in shape. Both were discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall in August 1877 and are...
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    series of probes to Mars including the first intended flybys and hard (impact) landing (Mars 1962B). The first successful flyby of Mars was on 14–15 July...
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    Mars Cube One (or MarCO) was a Mars flyby mission launched on 5 May 2018 alongside NASA's InSight Mars lander. It consisted of two nanospacecraft, MarCO-A...
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    System Exploration. Retrieved 9 June 2019. "New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt Flyby". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 9 June 2019. "In Depth | New Horizons"...
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    United States Congress that NASA believed the mission was an attempt at a Mars flyby probe. Some Soviet scientists[who?] involved with the program at that...
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    spacecraft and rovers, with the first flyby by the Mariner 4 probe in 1965, the first Mars orbiter by the Mars 2 probe in 1971, and the first landing...
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    Zond 2 (category Soviet Mars missions)
    program, and was the sixth Soviet spacecraft to attempt a flyby of Mars. (See Exploration of Mars) It was launched on November 30, 1964 at 13:12 UTC onboard...
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    C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) (category Mars impact events)
    reported a healthy status after the comet flyby on 19 October 2014. During the flyby, orbiters around Mars detected thousands of kilograms per hour of...
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    Lavochkin, Mars 7 was the second of two 3MP spacecraft launched to Mars in 1973, having been preceded by Mars 6. Two orbiters, Mars 4 and Mars 5, were launched...
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  • launched in 1962 as part of the Mars programme, and was intended to make a flyby of Mars, and transmit images of the planet back to Earth. Due to a problem with...
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    an episode of Archer. Following the Mars flyby of the Mariner 4 spacecraft in 1966, scientists concluded that Mars' polar caps consist entirely of dry...
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    The mission's goals were to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars during close flybys, in order to establish the basis for future investigations, particularly...
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    Nevertheless, flyby occultations can only measure properties along two transects, at their trajectories' entries and exits from Mars' disk as seen from...
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    Mars Aerial Platform (Atmospheric) Mars Polar Pathfinder (Polar Lander) Mars Upper Atmosphere Dynamics, Energetics and Evolution Mercury Polar Flyby Near...
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    Belyayev and Senior Lieutenants Valentin Bondarenko, Valentin Varlamov and Mars Rafikov, who joined on 28 April 1960. Captain Anatoly Kartashov was the last...
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  • competition, but secretly pursued two programs in the 1960s: crewed lunar flyby missions using Soyuz 7K-L1 (Zond) spacecraft launched with the Proton-K...
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  • Venus flyby 14 July 1964 Zond 2 Launched 30 November 1964 Communications lost May 1965 Mars flyby 6 August 1965 Zond 3 Launched 18 July 1965 Lunar Flyby 20...
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