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VEGA 1 DESCENT CRAFT
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Vega 1 was a Soviet space probe, part of the Vega program. The spacecraft was a development of the earlier Venera craft. They were designed by Babakin Space Centre and constructed as 5VK by Lavochkin at Khimki. The name VeGa (ВеГа) combines the first two letters from the Russian words for Venus and Halley.
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 15, 1984 at 09:16 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/D-1 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Vega-1
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1984-125E
- NORAD catalog №
- 15858
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- June 9, 1985
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- June 9, 1985
- Time in service
- 176 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed