Saturday, June 3, 1995

Venera 2B

  1962-043A


The second 2MV-1 probe suffered a similar fate to the first, reentering from parking orbit after 5 days. A fuel valve on the S1.5400A1 engine failed to open and the Blok-L main engine did not ignite.


2MV-1 No. 2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1962 Sep 1  0212:30 Launch by 8K78  KB 
 0217  Blok-A sep 
 0217  Blok-I burn 
 0221  Blok-I sep  180 x 310 x 64.9 
 0312 BOZ burn 
 0314:00  Blok-L failed to ignite 
1962 Sep 6   Reentered 

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