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VENERA 7
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Venera 7 was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface on 15 December 1970, it became the first spacecraft to execute a successful soft landing on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 17, 1970 at 05:38 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Molniya-M 2BL →
- Operator
- Soviet Space Program
- Mission
- Venera-7
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Venus
- Reference body
- Venus
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Russia (CIS / former USSR)
- Launch mass
- 1,169.47 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1970-060A
- NORAD catalog №
- 4489
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Russia (CIS / former USSR)- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- December 15, 1970
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- December 15, 1970
- Time in service
- 120 days
- Fate
- Mission ended at Venus.
- Final status
- Decayed