5 November 1964: Mariner 3 lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop an Atlas-Agena rocket, bound for a Mars flyby; unlike the Ranger-based Mariner 1 & 2 probes, Mariner 3 was based on an all-new bus; the solar panels did not deploy, due to a separation failure of the payload fairing; eight hours after launch, the batteries were exhausted & contact was lost with Mariner 3.
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