22 August 1970, 05:06:09 (1970-08-22UTC05:06:09Z) UTC
Rocket
Molniya-M 8K78M
Launch site
Baikonur 31/6
End of mission
Decay date
6 November 1970 (1970-11-07Z)
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Low Earth
Eccentricity
0.05041
Perigee altitude
210 kilometres (130 mi)
Apogee altitude
910 kilometres (570 mi)
Inclination
51.5 degrees
Period
95.70 minutes
Venera
← Venera 7
Venera 8 →
Kosmos 359 was an unmanned Soviet probe launched on 22 August 1970.[2] The probe's intended purpose was to explore Venus, but an error caused the final-stage rocket to malfunction. This left the craft trapped in an elliptical orbit around Earth for 410 days before orbital decay and atmospheric entry.[3] Kosmos 359 was launched five days after Venera 7 and had an identical design; had the craft not suffered a mission-ending failure, it would have landed on Venus shortly after Venera 7.[4] To publicly acknowledge the failure of the attempted Venus lander would be a public relations disaster for the Soviet space program; after the mission failed, the Venera spacecraft was renamed Kosmos 359 in order to conceal the mishap from the public.[5]
^Krebs, Gunter. "Interplanetary Probes". Gunter's Space Page. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
^Huntress, Wesley; Marov, Mikhail (2011). Soviet Robots in the Solar System. Chichester, UK: Praxis Publishing. p. 420. ISBN 978-1-4419-7897-4.
^Walker, Doreen M.C Walker (March 1974). "Analysis of the Orbit of 1970-65D, Cosmos 359 Rocket". Planetary and Space Science. 22 (3): 391–402. Bibcode:1974P&SS...22..391W. doi:10.1016/0032-0633(74)90072-5.
^Morov, V. I.; Bazilevsky, A. T. (2003). Space Science and Technology.
^Siddiqi, Asif A. (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016(PDF). The NASA history series (second ed.). Washington, DC: NASA History Program Office. p. 82. ISBN 9781626830424. LCCN 2017059404. SP2018-4041.
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