• farcaster@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      As far as I can tell this was intended to be a Venera probe, possibly it would have been Venera 9, but because it failed in earth orbit it was classified as “Kosmos”.

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        Right, I’m just saying this one didn’t make it to Venus. But it would be interesting to see the remains of the other one today.