Planetary Science
VEGA 2 BUS
activePlanetary ScienceHeliocentric
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Launch
- Launch date
- December 21, 1984 at 09:13 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-K/D-1 →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Vega-2
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1984-128A
- NORAD catalog №
- 15449
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- active