Payload
SPUTNIK 21
DecayedPayload
Venera 2MV-2 No.1, also known as Sputnik 21 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft, which was launched in 1962 as part of the Venera programme, and was intended to make a flyby of Venus. Due to a problem with the rocket which launched it, it failed to leave low Earth orbit, and reentered the atmosphere a few days later. It was the only Venera 2MV-2 spacecraft ever launched.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 12, 1962 at 12:59 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya 8K78 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera 2c
- Launch record
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Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-045A
- NORAD catalog №
- 389
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Radar cross-section
- 0.66 m²
- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- September 14, 1962
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- September 14, 1962
- Time in service
- 2 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed