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Home > Art, Film & Photography > Venera Programme: Venera, Venera 1, Sputnik 20, Kosmos 21, Sputnik 19, Sputnik 7, Kosmos 27, Venera 4, Venera 9, Venera 14, Venera 13
Venera Programme: Venera, Venera 1, Sputnik 20, Kosmos 21, Sputnik 19, Sputnik 7, Kosmos 27, Venera 4, Venera 9, Venera 14, Venera 13

Venera Programme: Venera, Venera 1, Sputnik 20, Kosmos 21, Sputnik 19, Sputnik 7, Kosmos 27, Venera 4, Venera 9, Venera 14, Venera 13


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Venera, Venera 1, Sputnik 20, Kosmos 21, Sputnik 19, Sputnik 7, Kosmos 27, Venera 4, Venera 9, Venera 14, Venera 13, Venera 10, Venera 11, Venera 12, Venera 15, Venera 16, Venera 8, Kosmos 482, Venera 15 and 16, Venera 7, Venera 5, Venera 6, Venera 3, Venera 2, Sputnik 21, Sputnik 8. Excerpt: Kosmos 21 (Russian: 21 meaning Cosmos 21 ) was a Soviet spacecraft with an unknown mission. This mission has been tentatively identified by NASA as a technology test of the Venera series space probes. It may have been an attempted Venus flyby, presumably similar to the later Kosmos 27 mission, or it may have been intended from the beginning to remain in geocentric orbit . In any case, the spacecraft never left Earth orbit after insertion by the SL-6/A-2-e launcher. The orbit decayed on November 14, three days after launch. Beginning in 1962, the name Kosmos was given to Soviet spacecraft which remained in Earth orbit, regardless of whether that was their intended final destination. The designation of this mission as an intended planetary probe is based on evidence from Soviet and non-Soviet sources and historical documents. Typically Soviet planetary missions were initially put into an Earth parking orbit as a launch platform with a rocket engine and attached probe. The probes were then launched toward their targets with an engine burn with a duration of roughly 4 minutes. If the engine misfired or the burn was not completed, the probes would be left in Earth orbit and given a Kosmos designation. A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Kosmos 27 (Russian: 27 meaning Cosmos 27 ) was a space mission was intended as a Venus flyby. The SL-6/A-2-e launcher successfully achieved Earth orbit, but the spacecraft failed to escape orbit for its flight to Venus. Beginning in 1962, the name Kos...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781155839349
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 88
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 141 gr
  • ISBN-10: 115583934X
  • Publisher Date: 07 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Venera, Venera 1, Sputnik 20, Kosmos 21, Sputnik 19, Sputnik 7, Kosmos 27, Venera 4, Venera 9, Venera 14, Venera 13
  • Width: 229 mm


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