Key facts
- Mission type
- Venus atmospheric probe
- Operator
- Lavochkin
- Cospar id
- 1969-001A
- Mission duration
- Travel: 131 days, Atmosphere: 53 minutes
- Spacecraft
- 2V (V-69) No. 330
- Manufacturer
- Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 1,130 kg (2,490 lb)
- Dry mass
- 410 kg (900 lb)
- Launch date
- 5 January 1969, 06:28:08 ( 1969-01-05UTC06:28:08Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya 8K78M
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Last contact
- 16 May 1969 ( 1969-05-17 ) , 06:54 UTC
- Reference system
- Heliocentric
- Perihelion altitude
- 0.72 AU
- Aphelion altitude
- 0.98 AU
- Inclination
- 2.0°
- Period
- 286 days
- Atmospheric entry
- 16 May 1969, 06:01 UTC
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Encyclopedic overview
Venera 5 (Russian: Венера-5 meaning Venus 5) was a space probe in the Soviet space program Venera for the exploration of Venus.
Venera 5 was launched towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. The spacecraft was very similar to Venera 4 although it was of a stronger design. The launch was conducted using a Molniya-M rocket, flying from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venera 5” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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