Venera 5, a Soviet Venus atmospheric probe launched on a Molniya-M from Baikonur; its lander parachuted into Venus's atmosphere on 16 May 1969 and returned pressure, temperature, and composition data for 53 minutes before failing at extreme depth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Venus
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 272 Molniya-M 2BL flights
- Date and time
- 5 January 1969, 06:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Molniya-M 2BL
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1969-001
- Launches in 1969
- 1st of 125
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