Venera 9 (Russian: Венера-9, lit. 'Venus-9'), manufacturer's designation: 4V-1 No. 660,[4] was a Soviet uncrewed space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 8, 1975, at 02:38:00 UTC and had a mass of 4,936 kilograms (10,882 lb).[5] The orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet.[6]
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spectrometer analyzed the chemical composition of the crust. The Soviet probe Venera9 entered orbit on October 22, 1975, becoming the first artificial satellite...
was part of the Venera program to explore the planet Venus. Venera 11 was launched on 9 September 1978 at 03:25:39 UTC. Separating from its flight platform...
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mapping operations. The Venera 15 and 16 spacecraft were identical and were based on modifications to the Venera9 orbiter and the Venera 14 carrier spacecraft...
interplanetary flight, Venera 1, followed by many essential interplanetary firsts, such as the first soft landing on another planet by Venera 7 in 1970. These...
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Union followed by the United States have soft landed probes on the surface. Venera 7 was the first lander overall and first for the Soviet Union, touching...
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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...
Journal. 127: 1–9. Bibcode:1958ApJ...127....1M. doi:10.1086/146433. Kuz'min, A. D.; Marov, M. Y. (1 June 1975). "Fizika Planety Venera" [Physics of the...
with volcanic lightning and sprites also under discussion. The Soviet Venera9 and 10 orbiters obtained ambiguous optical and electromagnetic evidence...
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Retrieved 18 April 2019. "Venera9". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 5 September 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2019. "Venera9 Descent Craft". nssdc...
launch Mars 3, Mars 4, Mars 6 and Venera 11, whilst Area 24 was used by Mars 2, Mars 5, Mars 7, Venera9, Venera 10 and Venera 12. Several Luna probes were...
events happened in spaceflight such as the launch and arrival at Venus of Venera9 and 10, the launch to Mars of the Viking orbiter/landers missions, the...
with an orbiter and an attached lander. The orbiter is identical to the Venera9 bus. The type of bus/orbiter is the 4MV. They were launched by a Proton-K...
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