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July 25th in Astronomy and Space Science

1973

USSR Mars 5 spacecraft launched. It is identical to the Mars 4 probe, launched 4 days earlier. Unlike its predecessor which overshot Mars and went into solar orbit, it enters Mars orbit on 2 February 1974 and transmits data for 3 days.

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