Mariner-Venus 1967: Final Project Report

NASA SP-190, issued by NASA’s Scientific and Technical Information Office, Washington, D.C., 1971. Foreword by Glenn A. Reiff, Mariner-Venus 1967 Program Manager, notes that Mariner 5 was converted from a spare Mariner-Mars 1964 spacecraft with only limited modifications, extending and verifying the Mariner 2 results from a closest approach of just over 4,000 kilometers with seven scientific experiments, at an actual cost 10 percent below the estimate.

Chapters detail the spacecraft’s mechanical configuration, science subsystem (ultraviolet photometer, solar-plasma probe, helium magnetometer, trapped-radiation detector, dual-frequency receiver), telecommunications, guidance and control, and propulsion, alongside mission operations coordinated with the ongoing Mariner 4 Mars mission.