Sunday, February 18, 1996

Venera 10

  1975-054A


The second V-75 Venus orbiter was 4V-1 No. 661, Venera-10. Prior to first TCM, closest approach was calculated as Oct 25 0831 with a 78000 km miss distance.


Venera-10 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1975 Jun 14  0300:31 Launch by Proton-K  KB 
 0309 St 3 sep 
 0313? Blok-D burn 
 0315? MECO-1 
 0422? MES-2 
 0430:05  MECO-2, solar insertion 
 1338?  EL1:4 
1975 Jun 19  1100?  Exit Earth sphere 
1975 Jun 21  1259:59  TCM 14.4m/s 
1975 Jun 24?   Solar orbit 
1975 Oct 18  0219:42  TCM 9.7m/s 
1975 Oct 23  0720SA sep 
  TCM 0.242 km/s 
1975 Oct 25   VOI burn 0.976 km/s 
1975 Oct 25   Venus orbit insertion  1400 x 114000 x 29.5 
  VOI-2  1620 x 113900 x 29.5 
1976 Apr 19   Turned off 

1975-054D

The Venera-10 SA landed at 291 00 long, 16 02 N. It survived for 65 minutes. Conditions at the landing site were 465 C, 92 bar.

Entry was 10.7? km/s at 22.5 deg, altitude 125 km.


Venera-10 SA 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1975 Jun 14   Launch by Proton-K  KB 
1975 Oct 21  1700? Enter Venus sphere 
1975 Oct 23  0720Sep from Venera-9 
1975 Oct 25  0355:33  Entry (0402 ERT) 
1975 Oct 25  0512:11  Landed (0517:06 ERT) 
1975 Oct 25  0617  End of transmissions, 65 min 

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