Sunday, August 8, 1993

Zond 1

  1964-016D


3MV-1 No. 4 was the first of the 3MV series to leave Earth orbit, and it was named AMS `Zond', later known as Zond-1. Communications with the spacecraft were lost in May. A trajectory correction on May 14 underburned by 20 seconds and Zond-1 passed around 100000 km from Venus.


Zond-1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1964 Apr 2  0242:40  Launch by Molniya  KB 
 0246  Blok-A sep 
 0246  Blok-I burn 
 0251  Blok-I sep  191 x 232 x 64.9 
 0346?  BOZ burn  
 0347?  Blok-L burn 
 0350?  Blok-L cutoff, solar orbit 
 0351?  Blok-L sep 
1964 May 14   TCM KDU burn, 53 m/s 
1964 May 30   Last comms 
1964 Jul 19   Venus pass, about 100000 km 

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