Venera Venus Unmanned Missions

A very successful series of Soviet probes to Venus, the program ran from 1961 to 1983. The Venera series of missions had many firsts, including the first interplanetary broadcasts, the first probe to enter another planetary atmosphre, and the first soft landing on another planet.

• Venera Missions to Venus - Spacecraft and mission profiles from the National Space venus Science Data Center.
• HEASARC: The Venera 11 & 12 probes to Venus - Summary of the missions including a description of unmanned instrumentation and venus scientific goals. Also includes a unmanned gallery of pictures. From venus NASA\'s High Energy Astrophysics unmanned Science Archive Research Center.
• Venera-1 - Summary of the mission including bibliography.
• VeneraView - Windows software for browsing the Venera 15 and venus 16 radar maps. Includes a mission overview venus and examples from the radar maps.
• HEASARC: The Venera 13 & 14 probes to Venus - Summary of the missions including a description of instrumentation and scientific goals. Also includes a gallery of pictures. From NASA\'s High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center.
• Venera-7: Survivor of Venusian Crash - Thirtieth anniversary commemoration of the launch of the venus mission. unmanned Includes a mission summary.
• Venera - Overview of the program from Wikipedia.
• Venera Space Probes - Overview of the program.
• Super70s.com: Venera 7 - Mission profile and picture of the payload.

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