Lockheed Martin

Viking 2

Titan IIIE

SUCCESS
Success

Tuesday, September 9, 1975 · 18:39 UTC

Mission

/01

The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission. The Viking 2 lander operated on the surface for 1316 days, or 1281 sols, and was turned off on April 11, 1980 when its batteries failed. The orbiter worked until July 25, 1978, returning almost 16,000 images in 706 orbits around Mars.

Mission Type

Planetary Science

Orbit

Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Titan IIIE

Variant: E

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 41

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.583° N, 80.583° W

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4

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