Monday, June 2, 2003

Venera 15

 1983-053A


The Venera-83 probes were a modified design in which the lander was replaced by an SLR radar for Venus surface mapping from orbit. 4V-2 No. 860 was launched on 1983 Jun 2 and became Venera-15.


Venera-15 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1983 Jun 2  0238:39 Launch by Proton-K  KB 
 0248  Stage 3 sep 
 0252?  Blok D burn  
 0254?  Blok D MECO-1 
 0356?  Blok D MES-2 
 0404? Blok D MECO-2 
 0404? Blok-D sep 
 1355?  Pass EL1:4 
1983 Jun 8  0615?  Leave Earth sphere 
1983 Jun 10   TCM 
1983 Oct 1   TCM 
1983 Oct 7  1500?  Enter Venus sphere 
1983 Oct 10  0305  Venus orbit insertion  1000 x 65000 x 87.5 
1983 Nov   TCM 
1985 Mar   end of ops 

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