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Sep 30, 2020 · Pioneer 13 dropped a large probe (the LNMS) into Venus' clouds; suspended from a parachute, the probe collected data and beamed it back to Earth as it plummeted toward its robotic death....
The Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, also known as Pioneer Venus 2 or Pioneer 13, was a spacecraft launched in 1978 to explore Venus as part of NASA's Pioneer program.
The Pioneer Venus mission consisted of two components, launched separately: an Orbiter and a Multiprobe. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter was launched on May 20, 1978, and inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1978. The Orbiter was a flat cylinder 2.5 m in diameter and 1.2 m high.
After a six-and-a-half-month journey, the spacecraft entered an elliptical orbit around Venus at 15:58 UT Dec. 4, 1978. It was the first American spacecraft to enter orbit around Venus, about three years after the Soviets accomplished the same feat.
- United States of America (USA)
- Pioneer Venus Orbiter
- Venus Orbit
- 1,283 pounds (582 kilograms)
Oct 17, 2024 · With three forthcoming missions to Venus — NASA’s DAVINCI and VERITAS, plus ESA’s (European Space Agency) Envision — space data archive staff are helping scientists access data from Pioneer Venus, NASA’s last mission to drop probes into Venus’ atmosphere in 1978.
Oct 1, 2020 · Artist’s impression of the large probe that entered Venus’s atmosphere in 1978 after deployment by NASA’s Pioneer Venus Multiprobe mission.
Aug 8, 2018 · On August 8, 1978, the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe spacecraft launched to study Venus, a planet that has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth’s atmosphere and is hotter than the melting point of zinc and lead.
