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VENERA 8
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Venera 8 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus and was the second robotic space probe to conduct a successful landing on the surface of Venus.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 27, 1972 at 04:15 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-8
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,169.47 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1972-021A
- NORAD catalog №
- 5912
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- July 22, 1972
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- July 22, 1972
- Time in service
- 117 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed