The Soviet Union launched its last Mars-7 spacecraft on this day, August 9, 1973. Mars program In the country, it consists of a lander and an orbiter placed in orbit around Red planet And collect vital data.
According to Space, the first three stages of the Proton-K carrier rocket placed the spacecraft and its platform in low Earth orbit before launching the Block D module to move Mars-7 into its heliocentric orbit, which would carry it to… The fourth planet from the sun.
When Mars-7 reached its destination on March 9, 1974, problems began, as the spacecraft failed to land from its carrier.
After separation and starting to land, the rocket failed to return, and the vehicle missed landing in the Martian atmosphere, which led to the abort of the landing process.
The problem has been blamed on faulty transistors that previously led to the failure of the Mars 4 mission, and the Mars 7 rover was left floating around the Sun.
