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Key facts
- Mission type
- Venus orbiter / lander
- Operator
- Lavochkin
- Cospar id
- 1975-050A, 1975-050D
- Satcat number span no
- 7915, 8411
- Mission duration
- Orbiter: 158 days , Lander: 53 minutes , Launch to last contact: 292 days
- Spacecraft
- 4V-1 No. 660
- Manufacturer
- Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 4,936 kg (10,882 lb)
- Landing mass
- 1,560 kg (3,440 lb)
- Payload mass
- 660 kg (1,455 lb)
- Launch date
- June 8, 1975, 02:38 ( 1975-06-08UTC02:38 ) UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K / D
- Launch site
- Baikonur 81/24
- Last contact
- Orbiter primary mission: March 22, 1976 ( 1976-03-23 ) , Lander: October 22, 1975 ( 1975-10-23 )
- Reference system
- Cytherocentric
- Pericytherion altitude
- 7,625 km (4,738 mi)
- Apocytherion altitude
- 118,072 km (73,367 mi)
- Inclination
- 29.5 degrees
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lander
- Mass
- 660
- Orbital period
- 48.3
- Manufacturer
- NPO Lavochkin
- Image
- Venera9superficie.png
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- apoapsis
- 118072
- orbital inclination
- 29.5
- periapsis
- 7625
- space launch vehicle
- Proton-K
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1975-06-08
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1975-10-22
- location of landing
- Venus
- located on astronomical body
- Venus
- Commons category
- Venera 9
- carries scientific instrument
- Cherenkov detector
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.89002
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Encyclopedic overview
Venera 9 (Russian: Венера-9, lit. 'Venus-9'), manufacturer's designation: 4V-1 No. 660, was a Soviet uncrewed space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 8, 1975, at 02:38:00 UTC and had a mass of 4,936 kilograms (10,882 lb). The orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet.
Orbiter
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venera 9” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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