Product Description

--This is a guide to the 1/35 scale Vostok 1P (Sputnik No. 4) interior of the multi-material kit from Russian artificial satellite model maker Red Iron Models.
――This kit comes with a resin body, etching parts and wires.

--Sputnik No. 4 (Russia: Спутник 4) is a spacecraft launched unmanned by the Soviet Union in 1960.
――As a preliminary step to the manned flight in the Vostok program, the purpose was to verify life support systems, investigate the effects of space flight on living things, and conduct experiments on atmospheric entry.
――For that reason, life support systems, television devices, dolls, etc. were placed inside the spacecraft.
--In addition to telemetry, the spacecraft also transmitted recorded human voices for the purpose of conducting communication experiments with the ground.
――Since the heat-resistant shield required for returning to the ground was not developed in time, we planned to rush into the atmosphere and dispose of it after the mission was completed.
--Launched by the Vostok rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome on May 15, 1960, the spacecraft completed its four-day flight as scheduled.
――After that, I succeeded in igniting the reverse injection engine to return to the earth, but the re-entry into the atmosphere failed due to an abnormality in the attitude control device.
――The spacecraft stayed in orbit around the earth for a while, then entered the atmosphere on September 5, 1962 due to the contraction of the orbit due to the resistance of the earth's atmosphere, and most of the aircraft was burned out by the heat of the adiabatic compression of the atmosphere. However, some pieces of metal fell into the city of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States.
* When the kit is completed, the total length will be about 13 cm.


Item Size/Weight : 29.5 x 17 x 5.5 cm / 368g

Product Specifications

Country

Russia/USSR

Item code

RIM35050

JAN code

4580702131784

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