Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Venus impact. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1965-092; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 16 November 1965, 04:13:35 UTC
- Launch location
- NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Molniya 8K78
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Soviet Space Program Molniya rocket launched the Venera-3 mission on Tuesday, November 16, 1965 at 4:13 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Vehicle
- Molniya
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1965-092
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Nov 16, 1965, 04:13 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Nov 16 1965
- Pad and location
- LC-31, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Trajectory
Mission timeline
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · January 1966?
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Venera 3
Venus impact.
- GCAT ID
- S01733
- Manufacturer
- OKB-1 im. S.P. Korolev
- Launch mass
- 560 kg
- Propulsion
- KDU-414
- Dimensions
- 3.7 m long · 1.1 m diameter · 3.7 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from Venera 3.
Verification
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