Key facts
- Mission type
- Venus flyby
- Operator
- OKB-1
- Cospar id
- 1965-091A
- Mission duration
- 3 months and 15 days
- Spacecraft
- 3MV-4 No.4
- Manufacturer
- OKB-1
- Launch mass
- 1,037 kg (2,286 lb)
- Launch date
- 12 November 1965, 05:02 ( 1965-11-12UTC05:02Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M
- Launch site
- Baikonur 31/6
- Disposal
- Spacecraft failure
- Declared
- 4 March 1966
- Last contact
- 27 February 1966, Shortly before flyby
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Low Earth
- Perigee altitude
- 205 km (127 mi)
- Apogee altitude
- 315 km (196 mi)
- Inclination
- 51.8°
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 105
- Mass
- 963
- Image
- Zond 2.jpg
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1965-11-12
- native label
- Венера-2
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Venera 2 (Russian: Венера-2 meaning Venus 2), also known as 3MV-4 No.4 was a Soviet spacecraft intended to explore Venus. A 3MV-4 spacecraft launched as part of the Venera programme, it failed to return data after flying past Venus.
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