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Mars Pathfinder [1] was an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, 10.6 kg (23 lb) wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, [4] the first rover to operate outside the Earth–Moon system.
First lander to impact Mars. Deployed from Mars 2, failed to land during attempt on 27 November 1971. [7] PrOP-M: Rover Failure Lost with Mars 2: First rover launched to Mars. Lost when the Mars 2 lander crashed into the surface of Mars. 16 Mars 3: Mars 3 (4M No.172) 28 May 1971 Soviet Union: Orbiter Successful
Front and center is the flight spare for the first Mars rover, Sojourner, which landed on Mars in 1997 as part of the Mars Pathfinder Project. On the left is a Mars Exploration Rover Project (MER) test rover that is a working sibling to Spirit and Opportunity , which landed on Mars in 2004.
Astronomers reflect on the 25th anniversary of the Mars rover landing, the first wheeled robot to roam a planet.
This article lists orbital and suborbital launches planned for the second half of the year 2025, including launches planned for 2025 without a specific launch date. For all other spaceflight activities, see 2025 in spaceflight. For launches in the first half of 2025, see List of spaceflight launches in January–June 2025.
Mars Pathfinder: Mars: Success: Mars Pathfinder, the first automated surface exploration of another planet Russia: Mars 96: Mars: Failure: Mars 96 orbiter and lander Argentina: SAC-B: Earth: Failure: Sac-B Orbiter 1997 US/ Europe: Cassini-Huygens: Saturn and Titan: Success: Cassini-Huygens arrived in orbit on July 1, 2004, landed on Titan ...
Mars Pathfinder: NASA Heliocentric: Mars lander: 4 July 1997 16:57: Successful Sojourner: NASA Heliocentric Mars rover First Mars rover; landing site: Ares Vallis Final contact with Sojourner received on 27 September 1997 and the mission was terminated on 10 March 1998 11 December 12:00 Tsyklon-2: Baikonur Site 90/20: Kosmos 2335 MO RF Low Earth
Elon Musk has announced that the first SpaceX missions to Mars aboard the next-generation Starship rocket are planned for 2026.. The SpaceX boss said the launch date is scheduled for when the next ...