Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Mars 2MV-4 No.1 also known as Sputnik 22 in the West was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1962 as part of the Mars programme and was intended to make a flyby of Mars and transmit images of the planet back to Earth. Due to a problem with the rocket which launched it it was destroyed in low Earth orbit. It was the first of two Mars 2MV-4 spacecraft to be launched the other being the Mars 1 spacecraft which was launched eight days later.