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Mars Pathfinder

Spacecraft
Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, 10.6 kg wheeled robotic Mars rover named... Wikipedia
Launch date: December 4, 1996 at 1:58 AM EST
Cost: 175 million USD
Max speed: 16,440 mph
Bandwidth: 6 kb/s to 70 m Deep Space Network, 250 b/s to surface command
Landing date: July 4, 1997; 26 years ago 16:56:55 UTC; MSD 43905 04:41 AMT
Launch mass: 890 kg (includes propellant)