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VENERA 6
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Venera 6, or 2V (V-69) No.331, was a Soviet spacecraft, launched towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. It had an on-orbit dry mass of 1,130 kg (2,490 lb).
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Launch
- Launch date
- January 10, 1969 at 05:51 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-6
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,119.92 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-002A
- NORAD catalog №
- 3648
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 17, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 17, 1969
- Time in service
- 127 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed