Tuesday, February 4, 1992

Kosmos 96

  1965-094A


3MV-4 No. 6 was the final 3MV series launch, intended to be a Venera-4 Venus flyby mission. At the end of ascent one of the four third stage combustion chambers exploded. The fourth stage failed to operate and the probe remained in Earth orbit. The 3MV-4 space probe and the Blok-L stage remained attached and were given the cover name Kosmos-96.


Kosmos-96 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1965 Nov 23  0322? Launch by 8K78M  KB 
 0327? Blok-A sep 
 0327? Blok-I burn 
 0330? T+8:48, Blok-I engine exploded 
 0331? Blok-I sep  89.2 209 x 262 x 51.9 
 0422? BOZ burn failed? 
 0423? Blok-L failed to ignite 
1965 Dec 9   Reentered 

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