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VENERA 3
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Venera 3 was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It was launched on 16 November 1965 at 04:19 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, USSR. The probe comprised an entry probe, designed to enter the Venus atmosphere and parachute to the surface, and a carrier/flyby spacecraft, which carried the entry probe to Venus and also served as a communications relay for the entry probe.
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Launch
- Launch date
- November 16, 1965 at 04:13 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-3
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1965-092A
- NORAD catalog №
- 1733
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 1, 1966
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 1, 1966
- Time in service
- 105 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed