Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
Lockheed Martin
Provider type
Commercial
Orbit
Helio-N/A
Mission type
Planetary Science
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Tue, 09 Sep 1975 18:39:00 GMT
Orbital launch #
#1738 ever
Mission
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.