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VENERA 9 BUS
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The Venera program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus. A total of eighteen probes were sent, including two related Vega probes.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 8, 1975 at 02:38 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton / UR-500 K/D →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-9
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 4,891.97 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-050A
- NORAD catalog №
- 7915
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- active