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VENERA 4
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Venera 4, also designated 4V-1 No.310, was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. The probe comprised a lander, designed to enter the Venusian atmosphere and parachute to the surface, and a carrier/flyby spacecraft, which carried the lander to Venus and served as a communications relay for it.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 12, 1967 at 02:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-4
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,106 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1967-058A
- NORAD catalog №
- 2840
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 18, 1967
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 18, 1967
- Time in service
- 128 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed