Tyazhely Sputnik
Sign in to saveAlso known as Venera 1VA No.1, Sputnik 7, Tyazheliy Sputnik
Soviet unmanned spacecraft launched in 1961 towards Venus, lost in a launch vehicle failure
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Venera
- Followed by
- Venera 1
- Parent body
- Earth
- Mass
- 644
- Orbital period
- 89.25
- Image
- Venera 1 (a) (Memorial Museum of Astronautics).JPG
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- Commons category
- Venera 1
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1961-02-04
- space launch vehicle
- Molniya
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- orbital inclination
- 64.9
- periapsis
- 179
- apoapsis
- 296
- start point
- Gagarin's Start
- time of object orbit decay
- 1961-02-26
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