Friday, August 7, 1998

Mars 1B

  1960-F14


1M No. 2 was launched a few days after 1M No. 1 and was also a failure. The new Blok-I stage, on its second flight, failed to ignite its 8D715K engine and the Mars probe was lost. A leaky oxygen valve had caused the kerosene in the engine pump inlet to freeze while the rocket was on the pad. 


1M No. 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1960 Oct 14  1351:03  Launch by 8K78  KB LC1 
 1355  Blok-A sep 
 1355:53 Blok-I failed to ignite T+290s

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