Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Mars 1M No.2 designated Mars 1960B by NASA analysts and dubbed Marsnik 2 by the Western media was a spacecraft launched as part of the Soviet Union’s Mars programme which was lost in a launch failure in 1960. 1M No.2 which was intended to perform a flyby of Mars was destroyed after its Molniya carrier rocket failed to achieve orbit.
