Planetary Science
PIONEER VENUS ORBITER
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The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12, was a mission to Venus conducted by NASA as part of the Pioneer Venus project. Launched in May 1978 atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket, the spacecraft was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1978. It returned data from Venus until October 1992.
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- Launch date
- May 20, 1978 at 01:13 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Pioneer Venus Orbiter
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 364.72 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.44 × 1.22 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 10911
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 9, 1992
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 9, 1992
- Time in service
- 14.4 years
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed