Payload
SPUTNIK 20
DecayedPayloadLEO
Venera 2MV-1 No.2, also known as Sputnik 20 in the Western world, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was launched in 1962 as part of the Venera programme. Due to a problem with its upper stage it failed to leave low Earth orbit, and reentered the atmosphere a few days later. It was the second of two Venera 2MV-1 spacecraft, both of which failed to leave Earth orbit. The previous mission, Venera 2MV-1 No.1, was launched several days earlier.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 1, 1962 at 02:12 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera 2b
- Launch record
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Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 247 km
- Periapsis
- 186 km
- Inclination
- 64.8°
- Orbital period
- 88.82 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-043A
- NORAD catalog №
- 381
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 6, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 6, 1962
- Time in service
- 5 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed