Planetary Science
VENERA 9 DESCENT CRAFT
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Venera 13 was part of the Soviet Venera program meant to explore Venus.
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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)
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1975-050D
- NORAD catalog №
- 8411
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- October 22, 1975
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- October 22, 1975
- Time in service
- 136 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed