Friday, January 16, 1998

Venera 8

  1972-021A


V-72 No. 670 was the final Venera probe based on the OKB-1 design. It was launched to Venus in Mar 1972. The capsule landed on Venus on Jul 22 at 0929 UTC; the parachute container impacted separately and the antenna cover separated. The probe transmitted from the surface for 50 minutes.


Venera-8 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1972 Mar 27  0415  Launch by 8K78M  KB 
 0420  Blok-A sep 
 0420  Blok-I burn 
 0424?  Blok-I sep  88.57 191 x 222 x 51.8  
 0542  Blok-L burn (243s) 
 0546  Blok-L cutoff, sep, solar orbit 
1972 Apr 6   TCM 
1972 Jul 22  0740  Carrier sep 
 0837  Carrier entry
 0837  SA entry 
 0852SA cap sep 
 0929  Landed  
 1019  End of transmissions  

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