Payload
SPUTNIK 19
DecayedPayloadLEO
Venera 2MV-1 No.1, also known as Sputnik 19 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was launched in 1962 as part of the Venera programme.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 25, 1962 at 02:18 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera 2a
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 151 km
- Periapsis
- 151 km
- Inclination
- 64.86°
- Orbital period
- 87.5 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-040A
- NORAD catalog №
- 371
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- August 28, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- August 28, 1962
- Time in service
- 3 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed