Korabl-Sputnik 4 (Vostok-3KA No.1, Sputnik 9), first flight of the improved Vostok-3KA design that would carry humans. From Baikonur it completed one LEO orbit with dog Chernushka, mannequin Ivan Ivanovich, mice and other small animals; the mannequin ejected and all were recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 13 Vostok-K flights
- Date and time
- 9 March 1961, 06:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-008
- Launches in 1961
- 9th of 50
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