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3rd May 2025 | 07:45

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From: The Winchester

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Originally Posted by B Fraser

If that's Venera 4, then it was designed to survive the plunge through the atmosphere of Venus, a far harder task that Earth's atmosphere.

It’s pretty much a Venera 4 clone, but (and I guess you’ll know this but some won’t) since this one didn’t make it out of Earth orbit the Soviets did what was SOP for them, quickly relabel the thing as a common or garden Cosmos/Kosmos vehicle in an poor attempt to kid folks it was just another earth orbital mission, nothing to see here, move on…

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