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Failed Soviet Venus spacecraft
Zond 3MV-1 No.2
[3]
(or
No. 4A
[4]
), also known as
Venera 1964A
in the West, was a
Soviet
spacecraft, which was launched in 1964 as part of the
Zond program
. Due to a problem with its carrier rocket third stage, it failed to reach
low Earth orbit
.
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Zond 3MV-1 No.2 was launched at 05:47:40 UTC on 19 February 1964, atop a
Molniya
8K78M carrier rocket flying from
Site 1/5
at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
.
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During ascent, LOX entered an RP-1 duct due to a leaking valve and formed a glob of explosive gel. When core separation and Blok I ignition began, the thrust section exploded. The remains of the stage and probe landed 52 miles (85 kilometers) north of the town of
Barabinsk
in Siberia.
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