Venera 3MV-1

Venera 8
Credit - NASA

Other Designations: Zond 1. Manufacturer's Designation: 3MV-1. Class: Planetary. Type: Venus. Destination: Venus. Nation: Russia. Agency: NII-88. Manufacturer: Lavochkin.

Typical orbit: 197 km x 209 km at 65 degrees inclination. Mass: 890 kg (1,960 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78M.

Venera 3MV-1 Chronology

1964 April 2 - Zond 1 - Program: Venera. Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78M. Mass: 890 kg (1,960 lb).
Failed Venus probe. Solar Orbit (Heliocentric). Elaboration of a long range space system and conduct of scientific research.

1964 February 19 - 3MV-1 No. 2 SA - Program: Mars. Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78M. FAILURE: Failure.

1964 March 1 - Venus launch delayed. - Program: Venera. Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78M.
The launch was delayed due to malfunctions during prelaunch service.

1964 March 27 - Cosmos 27 - Program: Venera. Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Molniya 8K78M. FAILURE: During unpowered coast in parking orbit the escape stage Block L lost stable attitude due to a loss of the the power circuit of the pneumatic valves of the attitude control and stabilisation system. Mass: 890 kg (1,960 lb). Perigee: 197 km (122 mi). Apogee: 209 km (129 mi). Inclination: 64.80 deg. Period: 88.50 min.
The stage with payload remained in Earth orbit as Cosmos-27.

Bibliography and Further Reading

McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

Varfolomyev, Timothy, Spaceflight, "Soviet Rocketry that Conquered Space - Part 5", 1998, Volume 40, page 85. 1: Sp 95/37-260; Sp 96/38-31 (8K71 launches); 2: Sp 96/38-48; 3: Sp 96/38-206; Sp 96/38-317 (designatons); 4: Sp 98/40-28; 5:Sp 98/40-85

Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "Otmenenniy Start "Molniya-M"", 1997, Issue 1, page 29.

USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. Accessed at: ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/.

McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik. Accessed at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

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