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Nov 9, 2017 · Magellan. NASA's Magellan launched May 4, 1989, and was the first spacecraft to image the entire surface of Venus. Read More. Venus Express launched Nov. 9, 2005, and was the first European spacecraft to orbit Venus. Read More.
Pioneer Venus 2 contained the first spacecraft to land from the United States, the Day Probe. It soft landed on 9 December 1978. [1][2][3][4][5][6] The most recent lander was part of the Vega 2 mission, which soft landed on 15 June 1985. List.
SpacecraftLaunch Date [7]OperatorMission10 February 2020Gravity assist20 October 2018Gravity assist12 August 2018NASA United StatesGravity assist20 May 2010UNISEC JapanFlyby- Mariner 2 — First Successful Venus Flyby
- Venera 4 — Atmosphere Probe
- Mariner 5 — Flyby
- Veneras 5 and 6 — Atmosphere Probes
- Venera 7 — First Successful Venus Landing
- Venera 8 — Venus Lander
- Mariner 10 — Flyby of Venus en Route to Mercury
- Veneras 9 and 10 — Venus Orbiters and Landers
- Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Multiprobe — Venus Orbiter and Probes
- Veneras 11 and 12 — Venus Flyby Buses and Landers
Mariner 2 was the first successful mission not only to Venus, but to any other planet. It made a flyby of Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. The NASA spacecraft recorded Venus' temperature for the first time, showing it has a surface temperature of roughly 900 degrees Fahrenheit (480 degrees Celsius). The spacecraft also detected the density, composition and ...
Venera 4 was a Soviet Union spacecraft that was the first to successfully transmit information from the atmosphere of Venus. It entered the atmosphere on Oct. 18, 1967 and was not designed to make it all the way to the ground. The spacecraft showed an atmospheric composition of roughly 90% to 95% carbon dioxide, and found no evidence of a global ma...
Mariner 5 was a NASA spacecraft that made its closest approach to Venus on Oct. 19, 1967. The spacecraft measured magnetic fields on Venus and in interplanetary space, and it examined charged particles, plasma (superheated gas), ultraviolet emissions and the amount by which radio waves are refracted in the atmosphere of Venus. This sort of informat...
The Soviet Union's Venera 5 and 6 spacecraft were identical twin machines that each did successful flybys of Venus in 1969. Venera 5 entered the atmosphere on May 16, 1969 and sent readouts of the temperature, pressure and atmosphere for 45 minutes until it succumbed. Venera 6 also did a suicide plunge into the atmosphere on May 17, 1969, but its p...
Venera 7 and a failed twin (Cosmos 359) both launched to Venus from the Soviet Union in August 1970. Venera 7 was the first spacecraft to successfully return data after landing on the surface of Venus. That said, the spacecraft had a rough landing on Dec. 15, 1970. The parachute ripped during descent and the probe hit Venus at a high speed (56 feet...
The Soviet Union's Venera 8 and another failed twin spacecraft, Cosmos 482, both launched for Venus in 1972. Venera 8 landed safely on July 22, 1972 and managed to last 63 minutes on the surface before the high pressures and temperatures killed the transmission. The probe's mission confirmed that Venus has high surface temperature and pressure, and...
Mariner 10was the first spacecraft to use the gravity of one planet (Venus) to slingshot to a second planet (Mercury). It also was the first spacecraft to visit two planets. The NASA probe zoomed by Venus once on Feb. 5, 1974 and sent back the first close-up images of the planet from orbit. The spacecraft overcame several technical issues during it...
The Soviet Union's Veneras 9 and 10 each sent successful orbiters and landers to Venus. Venera 9 made a successful landing on Oct. 22, 1975 while Venera 10 alighted on the surface a day later. Both spacecraft transmitted TV photography from the surface and the mission as a whole recorded information about the planet's surface pressure, surface temp...
This NASA mission is sometimes referred to as Pioneer Venus 1 and Pioneer Venus 2, and sometimes as Pioneer Venus Orbiterand Pioneer Venus Multiprobe. Whatever the naming convention, however, the orbital part of the mission successfully entered orbit at Venus on Dec. 4, 1978 and sent back information about the atmosphere and surface of Venus until ...
The Soviet Union's Venera 11 and 12 were twin spacecraft that flew to Venus in 1978. Each spacecraft included a flyby bus that would release a lander. Venera 12 touched down on the surface on Dec. 21, with Venera 11 following four days later. Each spacecraft survived for more than an hour after landing. As a whole, the mission gathered information ...
1 day ago · November 18, 2024. Chart via EarthSky. November 18 and 19 late evening to dawn: Moon near Mars. Late at night on November 18 and 19, 2024, the waning gibbous moon will slide near red Mars, which...
Venus Exploration Timeline. Chronology of Venus Exploration. Mission Timeline. 1961 Sputnik 7 - 4 February 1961 - Attempted Venus Impact. Venera 1 - 12 February 1961 - Venus Flyby (Contact Lost) 1962 Mariner 1 - 22 July 1962 - Attempted Venus Flyby (Launch Failure) Sputnik 19 - 25 August 1962 - Attempted Venus Flyby.
Galileo. NASA's Galileo spacecraft used Venus' gravity to adjust its trajectory on the way to Jupiter. Vega 1 and Vega 2. En route to comet Halley, the Soviet Union's identical Vega 1 and 2 probes deployed balloons into Venus' atmosphere to measure the temperature, pressure, wind velocity, and visibility as they floated around the planet.
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Nov 11, 2024 · U.S. Mariner 5 U.S. Mariner 5 spacecraft being prepared for its launch to Venus on June 14, 1967. The probe passed within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of the planet on Oct. 19, 1967, transmitting data on the Venusian atmosphere and surface to Earth. (more)
