Completed or retired · Historical mission record
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The mission
Life sci, radiationSW. This reconstructed record groups 1 GCAT payload or flight element under launch 1961 TAU; fields not present in GCAT are intentionally left unset.
Launch profile
The launch
- Launch
- 6 August 1961, 06:00 UTC
- Launch location
- NIIP-5, Baykonur, Kazakstan
- Launch vehicle
- Vostok 8K72
- Orbit
- Lower low Earth orbit (inclined)
Flight data
Launch intelligence
A Soviet Space Program Vostok rocket launched the Vostok 2 mission on Sunday, August 6, 1961 at 6:00 AM (UTC).
- Launch provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Vehicle
- Vostok
- COSPAR launch ID
- 1961-019
- Flight profile
- Orbital
- Launch result
- Success
- Window opens
- Not published
- Target T-0
- Aug 6, 1961, 06:00 UTC
- Window closes
- Not published
- Provider display
- Aug 06 1961
- Pad and location
- LC-1, Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Mission ended — Completed or retired
Operations concluded · 7 August 1961
Historical mission record
GCAT records the primary mission element as completed or no longer operational.
Hardware
Spacecraft
Vostok-2
Life sci, radiationSW.
- GCAT ID
- S00168
- Manufacturer
- OKB-1 im. S.P. Korolev
- Launch mass
- 2,100 kg
- Dimensions
- 6.5 m long · 2.4 m diameter · 6.5 m span
Visual archive
Gallery
One image from Vostok-2.
Verification
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