Planetary Science
VENERA 12 BUS
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Venera 13 was part of the Soviet Venera program meant to explore Venus.
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Launch
- Launch date
- September 14, 1978 at 02:25 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/D-1 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-12
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,895.94 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1978-086A
- NORAD catalog №
- 11025
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- active