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Pioneer Venus Orbiter

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Pioneer Venus Orbiter

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Space Exploration - Pioneer Venus Orbiter

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PIONEER VENUS ORBITER - Launch (1978/05/20)

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OTD in Space – May 20: NASA Launches Pioneer Venus 1

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Pioneer Venus Orbiter End of Mission, NASA Ames Research Center, October 9, 1992

The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12, was a mission to Venus conducted by the United States as part of the Pioneer Venus project. Launched in May 1978 atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket, the spacecraft was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1978. It returned data on Venus until October 1992.
    • Launch and arrival at Venus 

    • Spacecraft 

    • Experiments 

    • Observations of Halley's Comet