Planetary Science
PIONEER VENUS PROBE 2
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The Pioneer Venus project was part of the Pioneer program consisting of two spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, launched to Venus in 1978. The program was managed by NASA's Ames Research Center.
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- Launch date
- August 8, 1978 at 07:33 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Pioneer Venus Multiprobe
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 290 kg
- Dimensions
- Ø2.5 × 1.2 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-078E
- NORAD catalog №
- 12104
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 9, 1978
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 9, 1978
- Time in service
- 123 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed