Venera 9 orbiter
OrbiterOrbiter that relayed the lander's signals and then studied Venus's clouds and upper atmosphere.
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- Lavochkin
- Last contact
- 22 Mar 1976
- Designator
- 1975-050A
Image: Stolbovsky · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 8 Jun 197502:38:00 UTC
- Last contact
- 22 Mar 1976
- Duration
- 9 months 14 days
- Destinations
- Venus
A Soviet mission whose lander returned the first images from the surface of another planet, while its carrier became the first spacecraft to orbit Venus.
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1976
Spacecraft
Completed
Venera 9 lander
LanderLander that survived 53 minutes on the surface, sending back a black-and-white panorama of the rocks around it.
- Launch mass
- 1,560 kg
- Power
- Battery
- Built by
- Lavochkin
- Last contact
- 22 Oct 1975
- Designator
- 1975-050D
Mission details from nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov.