Having read 'Russian Planetary Exploration' by Brian Harvey recently (part of the very interesting Praxis-Springer series) I was looking further into the Venera-1 spacecraft, one of the early partially-successful Soviet missions to Venus. Launched in 1961, contact was lost after a few telemetry sessions. The craft passed Venus and almost certainly continues to circle the sun today, and will continue to do so for some time yet.
As far as I can tell there is no model, card or otherwise, of it, so I had the idea of designing and producing one of my own. The aim is to use Sketchup to produce the design and then produce the model from it. As I've only just started using Sketchup this may be a rather long-term project! The ultimate intention is to put the model on the downloads section.
My preliminary research has given me some useful, if contradictary, images of the craft. There appears to be a full-size versions of it in the Memorial Museum of Astronautics, Moscow but I'm still trying to determine if this is an engineering model or just a replica. There's a good colour 4-view illustration of it on the internet that seems to have been published in 1979. And 3 decent B&W photos possibly of the original. But there are various differences between these images so my first job is to try to decide a suitable version.
So..... if anyone has any other decent sources for this I'd be very grateful. The craft was originally part of the 1MV series (M for Mars, V for Venus) and there seem to have been minor differences between the M and V versions. Venera-1 was initially known as the 'Automatic Interplanetary Station', until it became Venera-1 years later.
Julian
As far as I can tell there is no model, card or otherwise, of it, so I had the idea of designing and producing one of my own. The aim is to use Sketchup to produce the design and then produce the model from it. As I've only just started using Sketchup this may be a rather long-term project! The ultimate intention is to put the model on the downloads section.
My preliminary research has given me some useful, if contradictary, images of the craft. There appears to be a full-size versions of it in the Memorial Museum of Astronautics, Moscow but I'm still trying to determine if this is an engineering model or just a replica. There's a good colour 4-view illustration of it on the internet that seems to have been published in 1979. And 3 decent B&W photos possibly of the original. But there are various differences between these images so my first job is to try to decide a suitable version.
So..... if anyone has any other decent sources for this I'd be very grateful. The craft was originally part of the 1MV series (M for Mars, V for Venus) and there seem to have been minor differences between the M and V versions. Venera-1 was initially known as the 'Automatic Interplanetary Station', until it became Venera-1 years later.
Julian
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