Thursday, November 30, 2000

Zond 3

  1965-056A


3MV-4 No. 3 was launched on 1965 Jul 18 on a mission to test out the reliability of planetary probes. The modified Mars probe made a lunar flyby and returned pictures of the lunar surface. It was named Zond-3.


Zond-3 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1965 Jul 18  1432:05 Launch by 8K78  KB 
 1437? Blok A sep 
 1437? Blok I burn 
 1441? Blok I sep 
 1552? BOZ burn 
 1553? Blok L burn 
 1557? Blok L sep 
1965 Jul 20  0124  Start lunar photos at 11600 km ht 
 0224?  Perilune, 9220 km 
 0232  End lunar photos at 10000 km ht 
1965 Sep 15   TCM in solar orbit 
1966 Mar   End of ops 
1966 Dec   Reactivated for test transmission 

Payload:

  • Lunar mapping camera

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