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Mission
Kind: Venus lander
State: Spacecraft failure
Place: Venus
Operator: OKB-1
Date
Start:
Mission Ending
Last Contact: May 24, 1964 (1964-05-24)
Rocket
Rocket: Molniya 8K78M
Kind: OKB-1
Mass: 890 kg (1,960 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur LC-1/5
Flyby
1º Flyby: Venus
Orbit
Reference System: Heliocentric
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Zond 1 was a spacecraft of the Soviet Zond program. It was the second Soviet research spacecraft to reach Venus, although communications had failed by that time. It carried a 90 cm spherical landing capsule, containing experiments for chemical analysis of the atmosphere, gamma-ray measurements of surface rocks, a photometer, temperature and pressure gauges, and a motion/rocking sensor in case it landed in water.
