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Mission
Kind: Venus orbiter
State: Successful
Place: Venus
Operator: Soviet Academy of Sciences
Date
Start:
Duration: Overall: 1 year, 1 month At Venus: 9 months
Mission Ending
Last Contact: 13 June 1985 (1985-06-14)
Rocket
Rocket: Proton-K/D-1
Kind: Soviet Academy of Sciences
Manufacturer: NPO Lavochkin
Mass: 5,300 kilograms (11,700 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 200/40
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Cytherocentric
1º Orbit: Venus
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Venera 16 (Russian: Венера-16 meaning Venus 16) was a spacecraft sent to Venus by the Soviet Union. This unmanned orbiter was to map the surface of Venus using high resolution imaging systems. The spacecraft was identical to Venera 15 and based on modifications to the earlier Venera space probes.The latest data from the spacecraft were received on June 13, 1985, when it responded to the signal sent From the earth for «Vega-1».
