Planetary Science
VENERA 2
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Venera 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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Launch
- Launch date
- November 12, 1965 at 04:46 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-2
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 963 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-091A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1730
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- active