Venera 7 - Wikipedia
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 .
NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details
Venera 7 was the first spacecraft to return data after landing on another planet. Spacecraft and Subsystems. The spacecraft was very similar in design to Venera 5 and 6, with a bus holding a spherical lander probe.
Venera 7, 1st to Send Data from Venus Surface, Launched 45 …
Aug 17, 2015 · Venera 7 launched 45 years ago on Aug. 17, 1970 and ultimately became the first spacecraft ever to send data from the surface of Venus. It send data for 23 minutes after landing on Venus on Dec...
Venera - Wikipedia
The Venera 7 probe, launched in August 1970, was the first one designed to survive Venus's surface conditions and to make a soft landing. Massively overbuilt to ensure survival, it had few experiments on board, and scientific output from the mission was further limited due to an internal switchboard failure that stuck in the "transmit ...
Into the great unknown: The Soviet Union's secretive Venera 7 probe
Oct 4, 2019 · Venera, (Russian for Venus), was the name given to the series of space probes the Soviet Union built between 1961 and 1984 to study Venus, both its surface environment and atmosphere.
Venera 7, first to transmit Data from Venus Surface, Launched 45 …
Dec 7, 2021 · Venera 7 was one in a series of Soviet missions to Venus to explore the surface of the hot, hellish and cloud-covered world. The spacecraft consisted of a spherical landing probe and a spacecraft bus to carry the lander to Venus.
Venera 7: The First Landing on Another Planet - Drew Ex Machina
Dec 15, 2020 · What was on display was an engineering model of Venera 7 which made the first landing on the surface of another planet on December 15, 1970 (almost 20 years before this exhibit).
Venera 7: Pioneering the Depths of Venus - Deep Quasar
Jan 11, 2024 · In 1970, Venera 7, the Soviet Union’s spacecraft, etched history as the first to land on Venus, uncovering secrets of the enigmatic planet’s atmosphere and surface. Initiating in the 1960s, the Venera program aimed to comprehensively explore Venus.
Venera Missions to Venus - NSSDCA
Jan 6, 2005 · Venera 1 - Soviet Venus Flyby (Contact Lost) - 1961. Other Planetary Missions Venus Home Page NSSDCA Planetary Home Page. Author/Curator: Dr. David R. Williams, dave.williams@nasa.gov NSSDCA, Mail Code 690.1 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 +1-301-286-1258.
Venera timeline: The Soviet Union's Venus missions in pictures - Space.com
Sep 12, 2021 · Venera 7. On Dec. 15, 1970, the Soviet Union's Venera 7 probe became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to send back data from the surface.