Reproduction of the Venera 7 lander at the Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics
Mission type
Venus lander
Operator
Lavochkin
COSPAR ID
1970-060A
SATCAT no.
4489
Mission duration
Orbiter: 53 years, 4 months and 28 days (in orbit) Lander: 23 minutes (final)
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
4V-1 No. 630
Manufacturer
Lavochkin
Launch mass
1,180 kilograms (2,600 lb)[1]
Landing mass
500 kilograms (1,100 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date
17 August 1970, 05:38:22 (1970-08-17UTC05:38:22Z) UTC[1]
Rocket
Molniya 8K78M
Launch site
Baikonur 31/6
End of mission
Last contact
15 December 1970, 06:00 (1970-12-15UTC07Z) UTC
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Heliocentric
Perihelionit altitude
0.69 astronomical units (103,000,000 km)
Apohelionit altitude
1.01 astronomical units (151,000,000 km)
Inclination
2.0°
Period
287 days
Venus lander
Landing date
15 December 1970, 05:37:10 UTC
Landing site
5°S351°E / 5°S 351°E / -5; 351
Instruments
COP-18-4M
GS-4
ITD
DOW-1M
Seal of Venera 7
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Venera 7 (Russian: Венера-7, lit. 'Venus 7') was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed the Venusian surface on 15 December 1970, it became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.[2][3]
^ abSiddiqi 2018, p. 93.
^"Science: Onward from Venus". Time. 8 February 1971. Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2013.
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